Job 20:19

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

¹⁸ In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult! ¹⁹ For he hath oppressed - hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild. ²⁰ Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind, - With his dearest thing, shall he not get away:

Job

Job 35:9

By reason of the multitude of oppressions, men make outcry, They cry for help, by reason of the arm of the mighty;

Proverbs 14:31

The oppressor of the poor, hath reproached his Maker, but he that sheweth favour to the needy, is one who, holdeth Him in honour.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up, - and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days;

1 Samuel 12:3-4

Behold me! testify against me, before Yahweh, and before his Anointed - Whose, ox, have I taken? or whose, ass, have I taken? or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I crushed? or at whose, hands, have I taken a bribe, to cover up mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it unto you.

1 Kings 21:19

Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying - Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou committed murder, and also taken possession? Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying: Thus, saith Yahweh, In the place where the dogs have lapped up the blood of Naboth, shall the dogs lap up thy blood, even thine.

Job 18:15

There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

Job 21:27-28

Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!

Job 22:6

Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill-clad, hast thou stripped off:

Job 24:2-12

Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;

Job 31:13-22

If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,

Job 31:38-39

If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;

Psalm 10:18

To vindicate the fatherless and the crushed, A man of the earth, shall, no further, cause terror!

Psalm 12:5

Because of violence done to the poor, because of the crying of the needy, Now, will I arise! O may Yahweh say, - I will place him in safety - let him puff at him!

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then again, I, considered all the oppressive deeds which were done under the sun, - and lo! the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter, and, on the side of their oppressing, is power, and they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If, the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of justice and righteousness, thou see in the province, do not be astonished over the matter, - for, one high above the highest, is watching, yea, the Most High, is over them.

Isaiah 5:7-8

Surely the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted, - And he waited, For equity but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right but lo the cry of the wronged.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush, under his feet, any of the prisoners of the earth;

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,- Even the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And the sojourner have they oppressed without justice.

Amos 4:1-3

Hear ye this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, - who say to their lords, Bring in, and let us drink!

Micah 2:2

Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away, - and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.

Micah 2:9

The wives of my people, ye do even drive out, each from the house of her darlings, - from over her children, ye do take away mine ornament, as long as life shall last.

James 2:6

Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice?

James 2:13

For, the judgment, will be without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.

James 5:4

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: