Job 20:19 Cross References
Job 20:19
19: For he oppressed the poor and left them destitute. He foreclosed on their homes.
Job 35:9
- "The oppressed cry out beneath the wrongs that are done to them. They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
Proverbs 14:31
- Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who help the poor honor him.
Job 18:15
- The home of the wicked will disappear beneath a fiery barrage of burning sulfur.
Job 31:38
- "If my land accuses me and all its furrows weep together,
- or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,
Micah 2:9
- You have evicted women from their homes and stripped their children of all their God-given rights.
Ezekiel 22:29
- Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.
Micah 2:2
- When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!
Job 21:27
- "Look, I know your thoughts. I know the schemes you plot against me.
- You will tell me of rich and wicked people who came to disaster because of their sins.
Isaiah 5:7
- This is the story of the LORD's people. They are the vineyard of the LORD Almighty. Israel and Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected them to yield a crop of justice, but instead he found bloodshed. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of oppression.
- Destruction is certain for you who buy up property so others have no place to live. Your homes are built on great estates so you can be alone in the land.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
- If you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and justice being miscarried throughout the land, don't be surprised! For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice only get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.
Proverbs 22:22
- Do not rob the poor because they are poor or exploit the needy in court.
- For the LORD is their defender. He will injure anyone who injures them.
Psalms 12:5
- The LORD replies, "I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do."
Job 24:2
- Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal flocks of sheep,
- and they even take donkeys from the poor and fatherless. A poor widow must surrender her valuable ox as collateral for a loan.
- The poor are kicked aside; the needy must hide together for safety.
- Like the wild donkeys in the desert, the poor must spend all their time just getting enough to keep body and soul together. They go into the desert to search for food for their children.
- They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
James 5:4
- For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
Job 31:13
- "If I have been unfair to my male or female servants, if I have refused to hear their complaints,
- how could I face God? What could I say when he questioned me about it?
- For God created both me and my servants. He created us both.
- "Have I refused to help the poor, or crushed the hopes of widows who looked to me for help?
- Have I been stingy with my food and refused to share it with hungry orphans?
Lamentations 3:34
- But the leaders of his people trampled prisoners underfoot.
Job 22:6
- "For example, you must have lent money to your friend and then kept the clothing he gave you as a pledge. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.
James 2:13
- For there will be no mercy for you if you have not been merciful to others. But if you have been merciful, then God's mercy toward you will win out over his judgment against you.
Amos 4:1
- Listen to me, you "fat cows" of Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and who are always asking your husbands for another drink!
- The Sovereign LORD has sworn this by his holiness: "The time will come when you will be led away with hooks in your noses. Every last one of you will be dragged away like a fish on a hook!
- You will leave by going straight through the breaks in the wall; you will be thrown from your fortresses. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Deuteronomy 28:33
- A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
1 Samuel 12:3
- Now tell me as I stand before the LORD and before his anointed one--whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong."
- "No," they replied, "you have never cheated or oppressed us in any way, and you have never taken even a single bribe."
1 Kings 21:19
- Give him this message: `This is what the LORD says: Isn't killing Naboth bad enough? Must you rob him, too? Because you have done this, dogs will lick your blood outside the city just as they licked the blood of Naboth!'"
James 2:6
- And yet, you insult the poor man! Isn't it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
Psalms 10:18
- You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so people can no longer terrify them.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
- Again I observed all the oppression that takes place in our world. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and the victims are helpless.