Proverbs 22:22

Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 34:20
Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Psalms 127:5
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

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Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 3:9
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 146:8
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

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Leviticus 19:13
“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Leviticus 25:17
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Job 36:6
He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Psalms 102:17
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Psalms 109:31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

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Psalms 9:16
Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Proverbs 1:18
but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

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Proverbs 22:25
lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul.

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Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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.

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,

Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

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.

James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.

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