Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
General references
Bible References
Waxen
Deuteronomy 32:15
"And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him.
Job 15:27
whereas he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking.
Job 21:23
One dieth now when he is mighty and at his best, rich and in prosperity;
Psalm 73:6
And this is the cause that they be so puffed up in pride, and overwhelmed with cruelty and unrighteousness.
Psalm 119:70
Their heart is as fat as brawn, but my delight hath been in thy law.
Amos 4:1
O hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria; yea, that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy; yea, that say to your lords, 'Bring hither, let us drink.'
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Overpass
Jeremiah 2:33
Why boastest thou thy ways so highly, to obtain favour therethrough, when thou hast yet stained them with blasphemies?
Ezekiel 5:6
but she hath despised my judgments more than the Gentiles themselves, and broken my commandments more than the nations that lie round about her. For they have cast out mine ordinances, and not walked in my laws.
Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they.
1 Corinthians 5:1
There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.
Judge
Jeremiah 22:15
Thinkest thou to reign, now that thou provokest me to wrath with thy Cedar trees? Did not thy father eat and drink, and prosper well, as long as he dealt with equity and righteousness?
Job 29:12
"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.
Psalm 72:4
He shall keep the simple folk by their right, defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer.
Psalm 82:2
How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
Zechariah 7:10
Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."
Yet
Jeremiah 12:1
O LORD, thou art more righteous than that I should dispute with thee: Nevertheless, let me talk with thee in things reasonable. How happeneth it, that the way of the ungodly is so prosperous? And that it goeth so well with them, which without any shame offend and live in wickedness?
Job 12:6
"The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.
Psalm 73:12
Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, these have riches in possession;
General references
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not hinder the right of the poor that are among you in their suit.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of robbery.
Proverbs 31:9
With thy mouth defend the thing that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poor and helpless.
Isaiah 59:14
And therefore is equity gone aside, and righteousness standeth far off; truth is fallen down in the street, and the thing that is plain and open, may not be showed.