Proverbs 22:22

Living With Your Neighbor

²¹ in order to teach you true and reliable words,
so that you may give a dependable report
to those who sent you? ²² Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor,
and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,
²³ for the Lord will take up their case
and will plunder those who plunder them.

Crush The Needy

Exodus 23:6

“You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner. They do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich—both lead only to poverty.

Job 31:16

If I have refused the wishes of the poor
or let the widow’s eyes go blind,

Job 31:21

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

Job 29:12-16

For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the foreign resident.