Verse 6

But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Men dere har foraktet den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere, og som trekker dere frem til domstolene?

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Men dere fornedrer den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og får dere inn for retten?

• Norsk King James

  Men dere har foraktet de fattige. Undertrykker ikke de rike dere og trekker dere for domstolene?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men dere ser ned på den fattige! Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Dere har derimot vanæret den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Men dere har vanæret den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Men dere har foraktet de fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Men dere har foraktet den fattige. Er det ikke slik at de rike undertrykker dere og fører dere for domstolene?

• gpt4.5-preview

  Men dere har foraktet den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere, og som trekker dere frem for domstolene?

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Men dere har foraktet den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere, og som trekker dere frem for domstolene?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Men dere har vanæret den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Men dere har vanæret den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men I vise Ringeagt mod den Fattige! Er det ikke de Rige, som underkue eder, og som drage eder for Domstolene?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Men dere har foraktet den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Men dere har vanæret den fattige mannen. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere, og personlig drar dere for retten?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Men dere har vanæret den fattige; er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for retten?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Men dere har vanæret den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for retten?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Men dere har vanæret den fattige. Er det ikke de rike som undertrykker dere og drar dere for domstolene?

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But ye have despised the poore. Are not the rych they which opresse you: and they which drawe you before iudges?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But ye haue despised the poore. Are not the rych they which oppresse you: & they which drawe you before iudges?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But ye haue despised the poore. Doe not the riche oppresse you by tyrannie, and doe not they drawe you before the iudgement seates?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But ye haue despised the poore. Do not riche men oppresse you by tirannie, and drawe you before the iudgementes seates?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

• World English Bible (2000)

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.
• Acts 17:6 : 6 And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too;
• Acts 18:12 : 12 And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,
• Acts 8:3 : 3 As for Saul, he ravaged the church, entering every house and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.
• Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their district.
• Ps 14:6 : 6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
• Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.
• Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.
• Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.
• Prov 22:16 : 16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest regards, and there are higher than they.
• Eccl 9:15-16 : 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no one remembered that same poor man. 16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
• Isa 3:14-15 : 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses. 15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
• Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes: 7 They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:
• Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'
• Amos 5:11 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
• Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
• Mic 6:11-12 : 11 Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierced with his own staves the head of his villages. They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me; their rejoicing was like to devour the poor secretly.
• Zech 7:10 : 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.
• Acts 16:19-20 : 19 When her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers. 20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city,
• 1 Kgs 21:11-13 : 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters she had sent to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
• Jas 2:3 : 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing fine clothes and say to him, Sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
• Ps 10:2 : 2 The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.
• Ps 10:8 : 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor.
• Ps 10:10 : 10 He crouches and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
• Ps 10:14 : 14 You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
• Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.
• Acts 4:1-3 : 1 As they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 Being disturbed that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
• Acts 4:26-28 : 26 The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ. 27 For truly against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 To do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
• Acts 5:17-18 : 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.
• Acts 5:26-27 : 26 Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council, and the high priest asked them,
• Job 20:19 : 19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build;
• John 8:49 : 49 Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.