Job 20:19

Modern English Version

because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession?” And you shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your own blood!”

Job 18:15

They dwell in his tent who have no part with him; brimstone will be scattered upon his habitation.

Job 22:6

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 35:9

“Because of the many oppressions they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.

Psalm 10:18

to judge the orphan and the oppressed; man on earth no longer trembles.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy sigh, now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he yearns.”

Psalm 12:6

The words of the Lord are pure words, silver tried in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him is kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I turned and observed all types of oppression that are done under the sun: Behold, the tears of the oppressed, and no one was there to comfort them. There was force from the hand of the oppressors, and no one was there to comfort them.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you observe in a district the oppression of the poor and violation of justice and righteousness, do not be astounded by the matter. For the high official is watched over by an even higher official, and there are even higher officials over them.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take from him a levy of wheat, though you have built houses of hewn stone, you will not dwell in them; though you have planted pleasant vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are grievous, you who oppress the just, who take a bribe and subvert the needy at the gate.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them. They defraud a man of his house, and a fellow man of his inheritance.

Micah 2:9

The women of My people you drive out from their delightful homes; from their children you take My adornment forever.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A nation that you do not know will consume the produce of your land and all your labors, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed all the time.

James 2:13

For he who has shown no mercy will have judgment without mercy, for mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2:6

But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you and drag you before the judgment seats?

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.