Jeremiah 22:13 - The Scriptures 1998

¹³ “Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his rooms without right-ruling, who uses his neighbour’s service without wages and does not give him his wages,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his [upper] chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages and does not give him his pay [for his work],

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor’s service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

Common English Bible

¹³ How terrible for Jehoiakim, who builds his house with corruption and his upper chambers with injustice, working his countrymen for nothing, refusing to give them their wages.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Woe to one who builds his house with injustice and his upper rooms without judgment, who oppresses his friend without cause and does not pay him his wages.

Jeremiah 22:13 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:4

And the sovereign of Mitsrayim made his brother Elyaqim sovereign over Yehuḏ

2 Chronicles 36:5

Yehoyaqim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה  his Elohim.

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its fruit without payment, or caused its owners to die;

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Jeremiah 22:18

Therefore thus said יהוה  concerning Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehuḏ

Leviticus 19:13

‘Do not oppress your neighbour or rob him. The wages of him who is hired is not to remain with you all night until morning.

Micah 3:10

those building up Tsiyon with bloodshed and Yerushalayim with unrighteousness.

Habakkuk 2:12

“Woe to him who builds a town by blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness!

Malachi 3:5

“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה  of hosts.

Deuteronomy 15:13

“And when you send him away free from you, let him not go away empty-handed.

James 5:4

See, the wages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which you kept back, cry out. And the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of יהוה  of hosts.