Job 20:19

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

¹⁸ Returning [the] products of [his] toil, he will not swallow; according to the profit of his trade, {he will not enjoy}, ¹⁹ for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it. ²⁰ Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach, {he lets nothing escape that he desires}.

Job

Job 35:9

"Because of [the] multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of [the] arm of [the] mighty.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed {for the rest of your lives}.

1 Samuel 12:3-4

Here I am! Testify against me before Yahweh and before his anointed one! Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, that I may shut my eyes {regarding} him?-then I will restore it to you."

1 Kings 21:19

You shall say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Have you committed murder and also taken possession?" ' You shall also say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood." '"

Job 18:15

"{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

Job 21:27-28

"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.

Job 22:6

"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off [the] clothes of [the] naked.

Job 24:2-12

They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].

Job 31:13-22

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

Job 31:38-39

If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together,

Psalm 10:18

to render judgment [for the] fatherless and [the] oppressed [so that] a [mere] mortal from the earth will no longer cause terror.

Psalm 12:5

"Because of [the] oppression of [the] afflicted, because of [the] groaning of [the] poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put [them] in [the] safety [for which] they long."

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I looked again, and I saw all the oppression that occurs under the sun. {I saw the tears of the oppressed-- no one comforts them! Those who oppress them are powerful-- no one can comfort them}!

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Do not be surprised if you see the poor being oppressed with violence or [do not see] justice and righteousness in the province. For one official is watched by a higher official, and [there are] even higher officials over them!

Isaiah 5:7-8

For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the man of Judah [is] the plantation of his delight. [And] he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under his feet all [the] prisoners of [the] earth;

Ezekiel 22:29

They severely oppress the people of the land, and {they committed robbery}, and they mistreated [the] needy and [the] poor, and they oppressed the alien {without} justice.

Amos 4:1-3

Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize [them], and houses, and they take [them] away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance.

Micah 2:9

You have driven out the women of my people from the houses of their pleasure. From their children you have taken away my glory forever.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?

James 2:13

For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.