⇧  1 2 3 4 1-4 5

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.

--------------------

Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.

-----

Genesis 27:40
You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

-----

Judges 19:19
Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”

-----

1 Kings 2:34
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

-----

1 Kings 9:15
This is the reason of the forced labor which king Solomon conscripted: to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

-----

Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

-----

Job 7:21
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

-----

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

-----

Job 18:2
“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

-----

Job 18:5
“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

-----

Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 20:17
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Ezekiel 45:9
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Enough you, princes of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!” says the Lord Yahweh.

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!”

Micah 2:9
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

Micah 6:12
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

-----

Job 24:12
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

-----

Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

Hosea 7:6
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

John 18:28
They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

-----

Job 27:23
Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

-----

Job 29:3
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

-----

Job 30:7
They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.

-----

Job 36:16
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

-----

Job 38:27
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

-----

Job 39:10
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

-----

Psalms 56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

-----

Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

-----

Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

-----

Proverbs 4:16
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

-----

Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

-----

Proverbs 7:15
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

-----

Psalms 63:1
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Psalms 78:34
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Proverbs 13:24
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

-----

Proverbs 24:9
The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

-----

Proverbs 31:15
She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

-----

Isaiah 35:1
The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

-----

Isaiah 42:11
Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

-----

Isaiah 51:12
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

-----

Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Micah 3:5
Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

-----

Jeremiah 14:6
The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

-----

Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.

Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22:28
Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

-----

Daniel 5:21
He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

-----

Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

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;

Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

-----

Habakkuk 1:11
Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”

-----

Hebrews 11:38
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

Public Domain