Job 20:19

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For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house he did not build.

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  • Job 35:9 : 9 People cry out because of the multitude of oppressions; they plead for help because of the power of the mighty.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate. 23 For the LORD will plead their case and will rob of life those who rob them.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that is done under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter. Power was on the side of their oppressors, and they had no comforter.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 The benefit of the land is for everyone; even a king depends on the field being cultivated.
  • Isa 5:7-8 : 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are the planting of His delight. He expected justice but saw bloodshed; He expected righteousness but heard cries of distress. 8 Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no room, and you live alone in the midst of the land.
  • Lam 3:34 : 34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
  • Amos 4:1-3 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your masters, 'Bring us something to drink!' 2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: 'Indeed, the days are coming upon you when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.' 3 You will go out through breaches in the wall, each woman straight ahead, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,' declares the LORD.
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.
  • Mic 2:9 : 9 You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.
  • 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 Here I am. Testify against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded or oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes to wrongdoing? If so, I will restore it to you. 4 They replied, 'You have not defrauded us, oppressed us, or taken anything from anyone’s hand.'
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 Speak to him and say, “Thus says the LORD: Have you murdered and also taken possession?” Then say to him, “Thus says the LORD: In the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick up your blood—yes, yours.”'
  • Job 18:15 : 15 What does not belong to him will dwell in his tent; burning sulfur will be scattered over his dwelling.
  • Job 21:27-28 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts and the schemes you plot against me. 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the noble? Where is the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
  • Job 22:6 : 6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
  • Job 24:2-9 : 2 People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security. 4 They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together. 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children. 6 In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked. 7 They spend the night naked without clothing, having no covering in the cold. 8 They are drenched by the mountain rains and embrace the rocks for lack of shelter. 9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge. 10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry. 11 They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty. 12 From the city, the dying groan, and the life of the wounded cries out, but God does not regard their folly.
  • Job 31:13-22 : 13 If I have denied justice to my male or female servants when they had a grievance against me, 14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account? 15 Did not the same One who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same God form us both within our mothers? 16 If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, without sharing with the fatherless— 18 but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow— 19 if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments, 20 and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep— 21 If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my support in the gate, 22 then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together, 39 if I have eaten its produce without payment and caused the death of its owners,
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 To vindicate the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man, who is of the earth, will no longer terrorize.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Those who say, 'By our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is lord over us?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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    18 He will give back the fruit of his labor but will not swallow it; like the wealth of his trade, he will not enjoy it.

  • Job 20:20-22
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    80%

    20 Because he knew no peace in his heart, he will not retain any of his treasures.

    21 Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last.

    22 In the fullness of his plenty, he will be distressed; the hand of all who toil will come upon him.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    79%

    13 Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

    14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • Ezek 18:12
    77%

    12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28 he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

    29 He will no longer be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread out across the land.

  • Hab 2:9
    75%

    9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

  • Ps 109:16
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    16 Because he did not remember to show kindness but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted to their death.

  • Mic 2:2
    75%

    2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Job 27:18
    75%

    18 He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

  • Prov 22:22-23
    2 verses
    75%

    22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate.

    23 For the LORD will plead their case and will rob of life those who rob them.

  • Prov 28:3
    74%

    3 A poor man who oppresses the needy is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

  • Job 20:27-29
    3 verses
    74%

    27 The heavens will expose his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

    28 The produce of his house will be carried away, flowing away on the day of God's wrath.

    29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the inheritance decreed for him by the Almighty.

  • Ezek 18:7
    74%

    7 He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked.

  • Job 20:10
    74%

    10 His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

  • Prov 14:31
    74%

    31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

  • Ezek 22:29
    73%

    29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

  • Job 22:6-9
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    73%

    6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

    7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

    8 But the powerful man owns the land, and the honored man dwells in it.

    9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • Prov 28:8
    73%

    8 Whoever increases his wealth by charging interest and unfair gain gathers it for one who is kind to the poor.

  • Ezek 18:16
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    16 He does not oppress anyone, or require a pledge for a loan, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.

  • Isa 10:2
    73%

    2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Ps 10:2
    72%

    2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

  • Ps 28:5
    72%

    5 Because they do not consider the works of the LORD or the deeds of his hands, he will tear them down and never rebuild them.

  • Prov 21:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 The righteous one considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked down to ruin.

    13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.

  • Isa 3:14
    72%

    14 The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of His people: 'It is you who have ruined the vineyard; the plunder taken from the poor is in your houses.'

  • Ps 109:11
    72%

    11 May a creditor seize all he owns, and may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

  • Prov 19:17
    72%

    17 Whoever is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his good deed.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

  • Job 22:18
    71%

    18 Yet it was He who filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Amos 8:4
    71%

    4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • Ezek 18:18
    71%

    18 But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Ps 10:10
    71%

    10 He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall by his strong claws.

  • Job 24:9
    71%

    9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Job 20:15
    71%

    15 He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God drives it out of his stomach.

  • Job 15:20
    71%

    20 All the days of the wicked man he writhes in pain, and the years allotted to the ruthless are hidden away.

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21 He preys on the barren woman who does not bear children, and he does no good to the widow.

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