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Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked come to power, people hide, but when they are destroyed, the righteous flourish.
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Amos 2:7
They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.
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Job 24:14
The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and by night he becomes a thief.
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Isaiah 10:2
to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.
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Psalms 41:1
Happy is one who is considerate of the poor; the LORD will save him in a day of adversity.
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Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the resident alien.
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Job 30:25
Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
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Ezekiel 18:18
“ As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity because he practiced fraud, robbed his brother, and did among his people what was not good.
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Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,asking,“ When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”
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Job 29:12
For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.
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Ezekiel 18:12
and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,
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Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, devouring the oppressed from the land and the needy from among mankind.
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Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who dream up wickedness and prepare evil plans on their beds! At morning light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.
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Psalms 109:16
For he did not think to show kindness, but pursued the suffering, needy, and brokenhearted in order to put them to death.
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Proverbs 22:16
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich— both lead only to poverty.
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James 5:4-6
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.You have lived luxuriously on the earth and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.
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Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumph, there is great rejoicing, but when the wicked come to power, people hide.
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Job 31:16
If I have refused the wishes of the poor or let the widow’s eyes go blind,