Job 20:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ For they have crushed and abandoned the poor; they have seized a house that they did not build.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has violently taken away a house which he did not build.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ They crushed and abandoned the poor; stole a house they didn’t build;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.

Job 20:19 Cross References

Job 35:9

“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?

Micah 2:9

The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.

Lamentations 3:34

When all the prisoners of the land are crushed under foot,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Psalm 10:18

to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that those from earth may strike terror no more.

Job 22:6

For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 18:15

In their tents nothing remains; sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.

1 Kings 21:19

You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, dogs will also lick up your blood.”

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed

Psalm 12:6

The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.