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 rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night 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 that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come 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 judgment, and to take away the right from the poor 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, hath stripped by violence, 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, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Amos 2:7
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 will go in to the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make 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 practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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Proverbs 28:12
When righteous men rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.