Nehemiah 5:7-9

New International Version

⁷I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them, “You are charging your own people interest!”^(A) So I called together a large meeting to deal with them ⁸and said: “As far as possible, we have bought^(B) back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.^(C)

⁹So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach^(D) of our Gentile enemies?

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Job 24:3-9

New International Version

³They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.^(A)
⁴They thrust the needy^(B) from the path
    and force all the poor^(C) of the land into hiding.^(D)
⁵Like wild donkeys^(E) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor^(F) of foraging food;
    the wasteland^(G) provides food for their children.
⁶They gather fodder^(H) in the fields
    and glean in the vineyards^(I) of the wicked.^(J)
⁷Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;
    they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.^(K)
⁸They are drenched^(L) by mountain rains
    and hug^(M) the rocks for lack of shelter.^(N)
⁹The fatherless^(O) child is snatched^(P) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized^(Q) for a debt.^(R)

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Matthew 18:28-30

New International Version

²⁸“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.^[a] He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

²⁹“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’

³⁰“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.

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