Job 20:19

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

¹⁸ He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.
¹⁹ For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;
he seized a house he did not build. ²⁰ Because his appetite is never satisfied,
he does not let anything he desires escape.

Job

Job 35:9

People cry out because of severe oppression;
they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker,
but one who is kind to the needy honors Him.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

1 Samuel 12:3-4

Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”

1 Kings 21:19

Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs licked Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick your blood!’”

Job 18:15

Nothing he owned remains in his tent.
Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.

Job 21:27-28

I know your thoughts very well,
the schemes you would wrong me with.

Job 22:6

For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

Job 24:2-12

The wicked displace boundary markers.
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

Job 31:13-22

If I have dismissed the case of my male or female servants
when they made a complaint against me,

Job 31:38-39

If my land cries out against me
and its furrows join in weeping,

Psalm 10:18

doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed
so that men of the earth may terrify them no more.

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the oppression of the afflicted
and the groaning of the poor,
I will now rise up,” says the Lord.
“I will put the one who longs for it in a safe place.”

Proverbs 22:22-23

Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor,
and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Isaiah 5:7-8

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah,
the plant He delighted in.
He looked for justice
but saw injustice,
for righteousness,
but heard cries of wretchedness.

Lamentations 3:34

ל LamedCrushing all the prisoners of the land
beneath one’s feet,

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.

Amos 4:1-3

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan
who are on the hill of Samaria,
women who oppress the poor
and crush the needy,
who say to their husbands,
“Bring us something to drink.”

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them;
they also take houses.
They deprive a man of his home,
a person of his inheritance.

Micah 2:9

You force the women of My people
out of their comfortable homes,
and you take My blessing
from their children forever.

James 2:6

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 5:4

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.