Verse 19

And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:9 : 9 there is a greate crie & coplaynte made by the that are oppressed with violence, yee eueryman complayneth vpon the cruell arme of tyrauntes.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He that doth a poore man wroge, blasphemeth his maker: but who so hath pitie of the poore, doth honoure vnto God.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Se yt thou robbe not ye poore because he is weake, and oppresse not ye simple in iudgment: 23 for ye LORDE himself wyl defende their cause, and do violence vnto them yt haue vsed violence.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I turned me, and considered all the violent wronge that is done vnder the Sonne: and beholde, the teares of soch as were oppressed, and there was no man to comforte them, or that wolde delyuer and defende them from the violence of their oppressours.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 Yf thou seyst the poore to be oppressed and wrongeously dealt withall, so yt equite & the right of the lawe is wraisted in the londe: maruell not thou at soch iudgmet, for one greate ma kepeth touch with another, and the mightie helpe the selues together.
  • Isa 5:7-8 : 7 As for the vynyarde of the LORDE of hoostes it is the house of Israel, and whole Iuda his fayre plantinge. Of these he loked for equyte, but se there is wronge: for rightuousnesse, lo, It is but misery. 8 Wo to you that ioyne one house to another, and bringe one londe so nigh vnto another, till ye can get no more grounde. Wil ye dwell vpon the earth alone?
  • Lam 3:34 : 34 To treade all the presoners of the earth vnder his fete.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people in the londe vseth wicked extorcio and robbery. They vexe the poore and nedy: and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.
  • Amos 4:1-3 : 1 Heare this worde, o ye fat kyne, that be vpon the hill of Samaria: ye that do poore me wronge, and oppresse the nedy: ye that saye to youre lordes: brynge hyther, let vs drynke. 2 Therfore the LORDE hath sworne by his holynesse: The dayes shall come vpon you, that ye shalbe lift vp vpo speares, and youre posterite caried awaye in fyssher pannes. 3 Ye shall get you out at the gappes one after another, and in Armon shal ye be cast awaye, sayeth the LORDE.
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 When they covet to haue londe, they take it by violence, they robbe men off their houses. Thus they oppresse a ma for his house, & euery man for his heretage.
  • Mic 2:9 : 9 the women off my people haue ye shot out fro their good houses, and taken awaye my excellent giftes from their children.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye haue despised the poore. Are not the rych they which oppresse you: & they which drawe you before iudges?
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For ther shalbe iudgement merciles to him that sheweth no mercy, & mercy reioiseth against iudgment.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth.
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 The frute of yi londe and all yi laboure, shall a nacion eate, which thou knowest not: and thou shalt but onely be he that shalbe oppressed and suffre wronge, all the dayes of thy life.
  • 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 Beholde, here am I: answere ye agaynst me before the RORDE and his anoynted, yf I haue taken eny mans oxe or asse, yf I haue done eny man violence or wronge, If I haue oppressed eny ma, yf I haue receaued a gifte of eny mans hande, and kepte it secretly, I wil restore it you agayne. 4 They saide: Thou hast done vs nether violence ner wronge, nether oppressed, ner taken ought of eny mans hande.
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 and talke thou with him, and speake: Thus sayeth the LORDE: Thou hast slayne, and taken in possession. And thou shalt talke morouer vnto him, and saye: Thus sayeth the LORDE: Euen in the place where the dogges licked vp Naboths bloude, shall the dogges licke thy bloude also.
  • Job 18:15 : 15 Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion.
  • Job 21:27-28 : 27 But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously. 28 For ye saye: where is the prynces palace? where is the dwellynge of the vngodly:
  • Job 22:6 : 6 Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge:
  • Job 24:2-9 : 2 For some me there be, that remoue other mes londe markes: that robbe them of their catell, and kepe the same for their owne: 3 that dryue awaye the asse of the fatherlesse: that take ye wyddowes oxe for a pledge: 4 that thrust the poore out of the waye, & oppresse the symple of the worlde together. 5 Beholde, the wilde asses in ye deserte go by tymes (as their maner is) to spoyle: Yee the very wildernesse ministreth foode for their children. 6 They reape the corne felde that is not their owne: and gather the grapes out of his vynyarde, whom they haue oppressed by violence. 7 They are the cause yt so many men are naked and bare, hauynge no clothes to couer them and kepe them from colde: 8 So that when the showers in the mountaynes haue rayned vpon them, & they be all wett, they haue none other sucoure, but to kepe them amonge the rockes. 9 They spoyle the suckinge fatherlesse children, and put the poore in preson: 10 In so moch that they let them go naked without clothinge, and yet the hungrie beare the sheeues. 11 The poore are fayne to laboure in their oyle mylles, yee and to treade in their wyne presses, and yet to suffre thyrst. 12 The whole cite crieth vnto the LORDE with sighinge, the soules of the slayne make their complaynte: But God destroyeth them not for all this,
  • Job 31:13-22 : 13 Dyd I euer thynke scorne to do right vnto my seruautes and maydens, when they had eny matter agaynst me? 14 But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him? 15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies? 16 When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne? 17 Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherles hath had no parte with me? 18 (for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.) 19 Haue I sene eny man perish thorow nakednes & want of clothinge? Or, eny poore man for lack of rayment, 20 whose sydes thanked me not, because he was warmed wt ye woll of my shepe? 21 Dyd I euer lyft vp my honde to hurte the fatherlesse? Yee in the gate where I sawe my self to be in auctorite: 22 The let myne arme fall fro my shulder, & myne arme holes be broken from the ioyntes.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 But yf case be that my londe crie agaynst me, or yt the forowes therof make eny complaynte: 39 yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 Helpe the fatherlesse and poore vnto their right, that the vngodly be nomore exalted vpon earth.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Now for the troubles sake off the oppressed, & because of the complaynte of the poore, I wil vp (sayeth the LORDE) I wil helpe the, and set the at rest.