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; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
Job 31:16
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Psalm 109:16
Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them .
Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain , And he that giveth to the rich,'shall come only to want.
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are as'swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Isaiah 10:2
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezekiel 18:12
hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
Amos 2:7
they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the'same maiden, to profane my holy name:
Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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 hide themselves.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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