Proverbs 22:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

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  • Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety `him who' doth breathe for it.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 for the judgment without kindness `is' to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you'; 2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; 3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! 4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; 5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
  • Job 20:19-29 : 19 For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. 20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. 21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him. 23 It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. 24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. 25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him `are' terrors. 26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. 27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. 28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. 29 This `is' the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Rob not the poor because he `is' poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. 23 For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.
  • Mic 2:2-3 : 2 And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance. 3 Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it `is'.
  • Zech 7:9-9 : 9 `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another. 10 And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart. 11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. 12 And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts. 13 And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts. 14 And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!
  • Luke 6:33-35 : 33 and if ye do good to those doing good to you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful do the same; 34 and if ye lend `to those' of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners -- that they may receive again as much. 35 `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;
  • Luke 14:12-14 : 12 And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee; 13 but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind, 14 and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

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    31 An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

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    8 Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

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    8 Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

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    22 Rob not the poor because he `is' poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

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    17 Whoso is lending `to' Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

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    7 There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.

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    13 Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

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    15 The wealth of the rich `is' his strong city, The ruin of the poor `is' their poverty.

  • Prov 17:5
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    5 Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.

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    23 `With' supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.

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    15 A growling lion, and a ranging bear, `Is' the wicked ruler over a poor people.

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    19 For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

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    23 Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

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    6 Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

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    11 And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

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    11 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

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    20 Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich `are' many.

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    24 There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.

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    7 The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

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    16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

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    18 Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

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