Job 35:9

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.

“ ‘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.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

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.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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 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;

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

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

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.

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

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.

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.”

The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

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.

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

For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

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

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

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

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

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

“ ‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

“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.”

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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.