Job 20:19

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”

It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

“I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.