Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
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Ecclesiastes 5:9
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
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Psalms 12:5
Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
Proverbs 22:16
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
Proverbs 22:22
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
Proverbs 22:23
For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.
Proverbs 3:31
Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.
Exodus 3:7
And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
Exodus 3:9
For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.
Psalms 140:12
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
Amos 4:1
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
James 5:4
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
Exodus 23:9
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
Deuteronomy 24:14
Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.
Job 34:28
So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
Micah 2:3
For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
Ecclesiastes 7:7
The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
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Psalms 10:14
You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
1 Samuel 2:8
Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
Job 36:6
His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;
Psalms 35:10
All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.
Jeremiah 20:13
Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.
Luke 16:22
And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Habakkuk 1:13
Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
Psalms 58:11
So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
Psalms 2:4
Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
Ecclesiastes 8:4
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
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Psalms 82:1
A Psalm. Of Asaph. God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.
2 Chronicles 19:6
And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.
Psalms 82:5
They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
Psalms 82:6
I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:
Psalms 94:20
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
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Proverbs 14:31
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Job 31:13
If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;
Job 31:14
What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
Job 31:15
Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
Matthew 25:40
And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
Ephesians 6:9
And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.
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Isaiah 3:14
The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
Isaiah 3:15
By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
1 Kings 12:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
Proverbs 28:3
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Amos 2:6
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
Amos 2:7
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.
James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
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Job 20:19
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Job 20:20
There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
Job 20:23
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
Psalms 62:10
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
Ezekiel 7:19
They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.
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Revelation 2:23
And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.
Proverbs 5:21
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
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Exodus 18:11
Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.
Psalms 92:8
But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
Acts 12:23
And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.
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2 Samuel 11:16
So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.
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Romans 11:33
O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
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Proverbs 24:12
If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?
Hebrews 4:13
And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.
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Revelation 17:7
And the angel said to me, Why were you surprised? I will make clear to you the secret of the woman, and of the beast on which she is seated, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
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