Job 20:19

Tree of Life Version

For he has oppressed and abandoned the poor. He has seized a house he did not build.

Cross References

Job 35:9

“Because of a multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the power of the mighty.

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the workers who mowed your fields—which you kept back by fraud—are crying out against you. And the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 2:13

For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor person. Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

Micah 2:9

The wives of My people you cast out from their exquisite houses. From her young children you take away My splendor, forever.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields, so they seize them, or houses, and take them away. So they oppress a man and his house— a man and his inheritance.

Ezekiel 22:29

“The people of the land have oppressively blackmailed, plundered in robbery, wronged the poor and needy and abused the outsider unjustly.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under His foot all the prisoners of the land,

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Though the profit of the land is taken by all, a king is served by the fields.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I looked and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold, I saw the tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter. Power is in the hand of their oppressors, but they had no comforter.

Psalm 12:5

They say: “With our tongue we’ll prevail. We own our lips—who can master us?”

Psalm 10:18

You vindicate the orphan and oppressed, so that man, who is earthly, may terrify no more.

Job 22:6

For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason; you stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 18:15

Nothing of his dwells in his tent; brimstone is scattered over his dwelling.

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: Have you murdered and then taken possession?’ You shall also speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood too.’”

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will eat up the produce of your soil and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the time.

Psalm 12:6

“Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the groaning of the needy, now will I arise,” says Adonai. “I will put him in the safe place— he pants for it.”

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, exacting from him a burden of grain, you built houses of hewn stone, but will not dwell in them, you planted pleasant vineyards, but will not drink their wine.

Amos 5:12

For I know your crimes are many and your sins countless— afflicting the righteous, taking bribes, and turning the needy aside at the gate.