Verse 19
And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.
Referenced Verses
- Job 35:9 : 9 They which are oppressed crye out vpon the multitude, yea they crye out for the power of the mightie:
- Prov 14:31 : 31 He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.
- Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement: 23 For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.
- Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done vnder the sunne: and beholde the teares of such as were oppressed, and there was no man to comfort them, or that woulde deliuer and defende them from the violence of their oppressours.
- Eccl 5:8 : 8 If thou seest the poore to be oppressed, and wrongfully dealt withall, so that equitie and right of the lawe is wrested in the lande, maruayle not thou at such a thyng: for he that is higher then the hyghest regardeth, and there be hygher then they.
- Isa 5:7-8 : 7 As for the vineyarde of the Lorde of hoastes, it is the house of Israel: and the man of Iuda, the plant of his pleasure: Of these he loked for equitie, but see there is oppression for ryghteousnesse, and lo it is a crying. 8 Wo vnto them that ioyne one house to another, and bring one lande so nigh vnto another, that there is no more place: Wyll ye be placed alone in the myddest of the earth?
- Lam 3:34 : 34 To treade all the prysoners of the earth vnder his feete,
- Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery, they vexe the poore and needy, and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.
- Amos 4:1-3 : 1 Heare this worde ye kyne of Basan, that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, & destroy the needy, which say to their maisters, Bring and let vs drinke. 2 The Lord God hath sworne by his holinesse, that lo, the dayes shal come vpon you, that he will take you away with thornes, and your posteritie with fishe hookes. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, euery kowe forward: and ye shal cast your selues out of the palace, sayth the Lorde.
- Mic 2:2 : 2 And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
- Mic 2:9 : 9 The women of my people haue ye shut out from their pleasaunt houses, and taken away myne excellent giftes from their children.
- Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye haue despised the poore. Do not riche men oppresse you by tirannie, and drawe you before the iudgementes seates?
- Jas 2:13 : 13 For he shall haue iudgement without mercie, that sheweth no mercie: And mercie reioyceth agaynst iudgement.
- Jas 5:4 : 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth.
- Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruite of thy lande and all thy labours, shall a nation whiche thou knowest not, eate: and thou shalt continuallye suffer violence, and be oppressed alway:
- 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 Beholde here I am, beare recorde of me before the Lorde & before his annoynted: Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose asse haue I taken? whom haue I done wrong to? Whom haue I hurt? Or of whose hande haue I receaued any bribe, to blind myne eyes therwith? and I will restore it you. 4 They sayde: Thou hast done vs no wrong, nor hurt vs, neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hande.
- 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 And therfore shalt thou say vnto him, thus sayth the Lorde: Hast thou killed & also gotten possession? And thou shalt speake vnto him, saying, thus sayth the Lord: In the place were dogges licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogges licke euen thy blood also.
- Job 18:15 : 15 Other men shall dwell in his house, and it shalbe none of his, and brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.
- Job 21:27-28 : 27 Beholde, I know what ye thinke, yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me. 28 For ye say where is the princes palace? and where is the dwelling of the vngodly?
- Job 22:6 : 6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:2-9 : 2 For some men remoue the landemarkes, robbe men of their cattell, and feede of the same: 3 They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, and take the wydowes oxe for a pledge: 4 They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together. 5 Beholde, as wilde asses in the desert go they foorth to their worke, & ryse betimes to spoyle: Yea the very wildernesse ministreth foode for them & their children. 6 They reape the corne fielde that is not their owne, and let the vineyarde of the vngodly alone. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde. 8 They are wet with the showres of the mountaynes, and embrace the rocke for want of a couering. 9 They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore. 10 They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie. 11 The poore are fayne to labour in their oyle mylles, yea and to treade in their wyne presses, and yet to suffer thirst. 12 Men out of the citie crye vnto the Lord with sighing, the soules of the slayne also crye out, yet God regardeth not their complaynt.
- Job 31:13-22 : 13 If I euer thought scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes & maydens, when they had any matter against me: 14 When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him? 15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies? 16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne: 17 If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof: 18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe) 19 If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment: 20 If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe: 21 If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate: 22 Then let myne arme fall fro my shoulder, and myne arme holes be broken from the bone.
- Job 31:38-39 : 38 But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt: 39 If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof:
- Ps 10:18 : 18 Thou wylt be attentiue with thyne eare, to geue iudgement for the fatherlesse and oppressed: so no man in the earth shall once go about hereafter to do them violence.
- Ps 12:5 : 5 For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, hym whom the wicked hath snared.