Job 7:2
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2 Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
and like laborers who look for their wages,(A)
Leviticus 19:13
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13 “You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.(A)
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Deuteronomy 24:15
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15 You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(A)
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James 5:4
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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)
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Malachi 3:5
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5 Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Jeremiah 6:4
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4 “Prepare war against her;
up, and let us attack at noon!”
“Woe to us, for the day declines;
the shadows of evening lengthen!”(A)
Psalm 143:6
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6 I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah(A)
Psalm 119:131
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131 With open mouth I pant,
because I long for your commandments.(A)
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