Proverbs 28:8
Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 13:22 : 22 A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is' the sinner's wealth.
- Lev 25:36 : 36 thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;
- Exod 22:25 : 25 `If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;
- Prov 14:31 : 31 An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
- Prov 19:7 : 7 All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!
- Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ezek 18:8 : 8 In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.
- Ezek 18:13 : 13 In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.
- Ezek 18:17 : 17 From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.
- 2 Sam 12:6 : 6 and the ewe-lamb he doth repay fourfold, because that he hath done this thing, and because that he had no pity.'
- Job 27:16-17 : 16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, 17 He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth `it' on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
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16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.
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17Whoso is lending `to' Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.
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19Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with' poverty.
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3A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
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8In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.
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12The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!
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13Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.
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11A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.
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25`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;
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6Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?
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20Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich `are' many.
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4Poor `is' he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
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15The wealth of the rich `is' his strong city, The ruin of the poor `is' their poverty.
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4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
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19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
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23Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.
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5His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!
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23`With' supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.
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10His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
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26All the day desiring he hath desired, And the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.
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4Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.
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9Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,
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13Wo to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.
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