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Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.
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Amos 2:7
They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
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Job 24:14
Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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Isaiah 10:2
to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
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Psalms 41:1
How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, the LORD delivers him.
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Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice.
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Job 30:25
Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
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Amos 8:4-6
Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.You say,“ When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”
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Job 29:12
for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
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Ezekiel 18:12
oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
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Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.
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Micah 2:1-2
Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
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Psalms 109:16
For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.
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Proverbs 22:16
The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
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James 5:4-6
Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.
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Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous rejoice, great is the glory, but when the wicked rise to power, people are sought out.
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Job 31:16
If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,