Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Bible References

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Job 24:14
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 31:16
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Psalm 109:16
Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.
Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, bringeth only to want.
Proverbs 30:14
a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Isaiah 10:2
to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Ezekiel 18:12
hath oppressed the poor and needy, exercised robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination,
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.
Amos 2:7
panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
Micah 2:1
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men conceal themselves.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.