⁶ But you have dishonored the poor.^(A) Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?^(B)

Saying 2

Warning to Rich Oppressors

5 Now listen,^(A) you rich people,^(B) weep and wail^(C) because of the misery that is coming on you.

²⁵ Since he was not able to pay,^(A) the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold^(B) to repay the debt.

⁴ Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax^(A) on our fields and vineyards. ⁵ Although we are of the same flesh and blood^(B) as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery.^(C) Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”^(D)

The Widow’s Olive Oil

4 The wife of a man from the company^(A) of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor^(B) is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”