Job 20:19

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

¹⁸ giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it. ¹⁹ For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it. ²⁰ Surely he shall not know quietness in his belly; he will not escape with the things of desire.

Job

Job 35:9

From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude.

Proverbs 14:31

He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,

1 Samuel 12:3-4

Behold, here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received a bribe, to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.

1 Kings 21:19

And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him saying, So says Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

Job 18:15

What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be scattered on his home.

Job 21:27-28

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me.

Job 22:6

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

Job 24:2-12

They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.

Job 31:13-22

If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me;

Job 31:38-39

If my lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together;

Psalm 10:18

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

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate;

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

Isaiah 5:7-8

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

Lamentations 3:34

to crush all the prisoners of the earth under His feet;

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger without right.

Amos 4:1-3

Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.

Micah 2:2

And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

Micah 2:9

You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.

James 2:6

But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?

James 2:13

For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.