Proverbs 22:7

¹Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

¹⁶Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

^25[+] But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

²³The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

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

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

²²Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

¹Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

⁴There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral. ⁵Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, ^[+] we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

¹Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”