Verse 19

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

Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:9 : 9 Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
  • 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.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones `are' over them.
  • Isa 5:7-8 : 7 Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry. 8 Wo `to' those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!
  • Lam 3:34 : 34 To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.
  • Amos 4:1-3 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who `are' in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in, and we do drink.' 2 Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by His holiness, That lo, days are coming upon you, And he hath taken you away with hooks, And your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And `by' breaches ye go forth, A woman `at that' over-against her, And ye have cast down the high place, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Mic 2:2 : 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.
  • Mic 2:9 : 9 The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 for the judgment without kindness `is' to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
  • Jas 5:4 : 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;
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;
  • 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 `Lo, here `am' I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? -- and I restore to you.' 4 And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.'
  • Job 18:15 : 15 It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
  • Job 21:27-28 : 27 Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully. 28 For ye say, `Where `is' the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'
  • Job 22:6 : 6 For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.
  • Job 24:2-9 : 2 The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil. 3 The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow, 4 They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth. 5 Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones. 6 In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean. 7 The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold. 8 From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock. 9 They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge. 10 Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf. 11 Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst. 12 Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
  • Job 31:13-22 : 13 If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, 14 Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? 15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. 16 If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, 17 And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, 18 (But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) 19 If I see `any' perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, 21 If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court, 22 My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, 39 If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
  • Ps 10:18 : 18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress -- man of the earth!
  • 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.