Job 20:19

WEB

¹⁹For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

KJV

¹⁹Because he hath oppressed^[+] and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

BSB

¹⁹For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

FBV

¹⁹For they have oppressed and abandoned the poor; they have seized houses they did not build.

Extra References

Job 35:9

⁹“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Proverbs 14:31

³¹He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 22:22-23

²²Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; ²³for the LORD will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

James 2:6

⁶But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

Ezekiel 22:29

²⁹The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

James 5:4

⁴Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

James 2:13

¹³For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹³“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, ¹⁴what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? ¹⁵Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it ¹⁸(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb); ¹⁹if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece; ²¹if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate; ²²then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

Psalms 12:5

⁵“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Ecclesiastes 5:8

⁸If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.