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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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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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.
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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 31:14
What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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