Job 20:19

Zophar charges the wicked man with crushing and abandoning the poor and seizing houses he did not build. Oppression of the weak is named as his crime.

Cross-references · 25

• Job 35:9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
• Prov 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
• Jas 2:6But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
• Ezek 22:29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
• Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Prov 22:22–23Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
• Jas 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Eccl 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
• Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
• 1 Sam 12:3–4Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
• Ps 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
• Job 24:2–12Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
• Mic 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
• Job 31:38–39if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
• 1 Kgs 21:19Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
• Deut 28:33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
• Job 31:13–22If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
• Lam 3:34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
• Isa 5:7–8For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
• Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
• Mic 2:9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
• Job 21:27–28Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
• Ps 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
• Amos 4:1–3Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

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