33 Bible Verses about Injustice

O Jehovah, until when shall I cry and You will not hear? I cry out to You of violence, and You do not save!

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, in whatever God brings to their hand.

Why do the wicked live? They grow old and become mighty in power.

For all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

All things I have seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just one who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs life in his wickedness.

You shall not pervert the rightful judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing to pledge.

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah.

An unjust man is a hateful thing to the just; and he who is upright in the way is hateful to the wicked.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to lust for strong drink; lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

And there came in two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him. And the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones so that he died.

And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after ill gain and took bribes and perverted judgment.

And Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison.

saying, When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit;

He who increases his wealth by interest and unjust gain, he shall gather it for him who will pity the poor.

So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

When a wicked man dies, his hope shall perish; and the hope of evil ones shall be lost.

Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like the light. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate; for Jehovah will plead their cause, and strip the soul of those who plunder them.

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his cause.

How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah.

And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Therefore the law has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted.

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

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.

For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity.

Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, even both of them are hateful to Jehovah.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High; to pervert a man in his cause. This, Jehovah does not see.

Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?

But when Pilate saw that it gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it. Then all the people answered and said, Let His blood be on us and on our children. Then he released Barabbas to them. And when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.

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.

You shall neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

An unjust man is a hateful thing to the just; and he who is upright in the way is hateful to the wicked.

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

And Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison.

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after ill gain and took bribes and perverted judgment.

If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me; what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?

But I say to you, Do not resist evil. But whoever shall strike you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.

saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see to that.

And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.

But after two years Felix welcomed a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to show a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

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.

He who is faithful in the least is also faithful in much. And he who is unjust in the least is also unjust in much.

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.

Why do You show me evil, and You look on toil? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up. Therefore the law has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted.