Job 20:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; Because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has violently taken away a house which he did not build. American Standard Version (1901) For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. Common English Bible They crushed and abandoned the poor; stole a house they didn’t build; Catholic Public Domain Version For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build: |
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? and thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man which is of the earth may be terrible no more.
For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety at whom they puff.
The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: But he that hath mercy on the needy honoureth him.
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of judgement and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there be higher than they.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.
But ye have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgement-seats?
Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.