For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
James 2:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you [in contrast] have insulted (humiliated, dishonored, and shown your contempt for) the poor. Is it not the rich who domineer over you? Is it not they who drag you into the law courts? American Standard Version (1901) But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats? Common English Bible But you have dishonored the poor. Don’t the wealthy make life difficult for you? Aren’t they the ones who drag you into court? Catholic Public Domain Version But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? and do not they draw you before the judgment seats? |
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
*Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,* says the LORD; *I will set him in safety from those who malign him.*
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him.
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomron, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, *Bring, and let us drink.*
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
Yeshua answered, *I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba, and threw them out of their borders.
When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, *These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Sha'ul and brought him before the judgment seat,
But Sha'ul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, *Sit here in a good place;* and you tell the poor man, *Stand there,* or *Sit by my footstool;*
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.