12 Bible Verses about Unjust Gain

Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!

He that increaseth his substance by interest and profit, for one ready to favour the poor, doth gather it.

Better a little with righteousness, than large revenues, without justice.

The gaining of treasures with a tongue of falsehood, is a vapour driven away, they who seek them seek death,

He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.

As a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, So is he that maketh riches but not with justice, - In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And in his latter end, prove to have been base.

Alas! for him who buildeth his house without righteousness, And his roof-chambers without justice, - Of his neighbour, taketh service for nought, And recompense for his work, giveth him not.

Lo! therefore I have smitten my hand, At thine unjust gain which thou hast made - And over thy bloodshed, which they have caused in thy midst.

Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields - that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:

A leader, may lack intelligence, yet abound in oppressions, The hater of greed, shall lengthen out days.

Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house, - that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.

A good man, leaveth an inheritance to children's children, but, laid up for the righteous, is the wealth of the sinner.