Job 20:19

because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

Job 35:9

"They cry out because they have many oppressors; they cry for help because the powerful are abusing them.

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses the poor defies their Creator, but whoever is kind to the needy honors them.

Deuteronomy 28:33

"A people whom you don't know will devour what your land and labor produces. You'll be only oppressed and discouraged continuously

1 Samuel 12:3-4

Here I am. Testify against me in the LORD's presence and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken? Who have I cheated? Who have I oppressed? Who bribed me to look the other way? I'll restore it to you."

1 Kings 21:19

Ask the king, "Did you commit murder? And now you're going to steal as well?' Also tell him, "This is what the LORD says: "Where the dogs were licking up Naboth's blood, dogs will also lick up your blood that's right yours!"'"

Job 18:15

"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.

Job 21:27-28

"Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me.

Job 22:6

"After all, you've taken collateral from your relatives for no reason; you stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:2-12

They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.

Job 31:13-22

"If I've refused to help my male and female servants when they complain against me,

Job 31:38-39

"If my land were to cry out against me or if all its furrows wept as one,

Psalm 10:18

to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that men of the earth may cause terror no more. To the Director: A Davidic Song.

Psalm 12:5

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

Proverbs 22:22-23

Don't rob the poor person because he is poor, and don't crush the helpless in court,

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Next I turned to consider all kinds of oppression that exists on earth. Look at the tears of the oppressed there is no one to comfort them. Power is on the side of their oppressors; so they have no comforters.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

Isaiah 5:7-8

For the vineyard of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden in which he delights. He looked for justice, but saw only bloodshed; he searched for righteousness, but heard only an outcry!

Lamentations 3:34

When any of the prisoners of the earth are crushed underfoot,

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land were vigorously oppressive and took possession of plunder by violence. They've afflicted the poor and the needy and unjustly treated the foreigner.

Amos 4:1-3

"Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!"

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate.

Micah 2:9

You have evicted the wives of my people from their dream homes; you have removed my majesty from their children permanently.

James 2:6

But you have humiliated the man who is poor. Are not rich people the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?

James 2:13

For the one who has shown no mercy will be judged without mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 5:4

Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

General references

Bible References

He hath violently

Job 18:15
"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.
Job 24:2
They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.
1 Kings 21:19
Ask the king, "Did you commit murder? And now you're going to steal as well?' Also tell him, "This is what the LORD says: "Where the dogs were licking up Naboth's blood, dogs will also lick up your blood that's right yours!"'"
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden in which he delights. He looked for justice, but saw only bloodshed; he searched for righteousness, but heard only an outcry!
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate.

General references

Exodus 20:15
"You are not to steal.
Leviticus 25:14
So if you had sold property to a neighbor or had acquired land from your neighbor, you are not to cheat one another.

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