Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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Job 24:5
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
Job 24:6
They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
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Job 24:1
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
Job 24:2
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
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Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
Psalms 109:16
because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
Isaiah 32:7
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
Ezekiel 18:12
has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
2 Samuel 12:4
A traveler came to the rich man, and he didn’t want to take of his own flock and of his own herd to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
Psalms 10:2
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
Amos 2:7
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Habakkuk 3:14
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
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Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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