Job 24:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 They thrust the needy off the road;
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.(A)
Proverbs 28:28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
28 When the wicked prevail, people go into hiding,
but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Amos 2:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
and push the afflicted out of the way;
father and son go in to the same young woman,
so that my holy name is profaned;(A)
Job 24:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 The murderer rises at dusk
to kill the poor and needy
and in the night is like a thief.(A)
James 5:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A) 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.(B) 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
Read full chapter
Micah 2:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Social Evils Denounced
2 Woe to those who devise wickedness
and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in their power.(A)
2 They covet fields and seize them,
houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
people and their inheritance.(B)
Footnotes
- 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil
Amos 8:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)
5 saying, “When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
and practice deceit with false balances,(B)
6 buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(C)
Ezekiel 22:29
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.(A)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 18:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he died for his iniquity.
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 18:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 10:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
to make widows their spoil
and to plunder orphans!(A)
Proverbs 30:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 there are those whose teeth are swords,
whose teeth are knives
to devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mortals.(A)
Proverbs 28:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory,
but when the wicked prevail, people go into hiding.(A)
Proverbs 22:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.
Psalm 109:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 For he did not remember to show kindness
but pursued the poor and needy
and the brokenhearted to their death.(A)
Psalm 41:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Psalm 41
Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 41.1 Or weak
Job 31:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired
or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail(A)
Job 30:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 Did I not weep for those whose day was hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the poor?(A)
Job 29:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 because I delivered the poor who cried
and the orphan who had no helper.(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.