Job 20:19 Cross References - MKJV

¹⁹ For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

³³ The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,

³ Behold, here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received a bribe, to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you. ⁴ And they said, You have not defrauded us nor oppressed us, neither have you taken from any man's hand.

¹⁹ And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him saying, So says Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.

¹⁵ What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be scattered on his home.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me. ²⁸ For you say, Where is the house of the noble, and where the dwelling-places of the wicked?

⁶ For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

² They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them. ³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge. ⁴ They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together. ⁵ Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children. ⁶ They reap his fodder in the field; and they gather the grapes of the wicked. ⁷ They lodge the naked without clothing, and give no covering in the cold. ⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter. ⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor. ¹⁰ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry. ¹¹ They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst. ¹² Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge foolishness.

¹³ If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One shape us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it, ¹⁸ for from my youth he grew up with me, as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her; ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate; ²² then let my arm fall from the shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken from the elbow.

³⁸ If my lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire,

⁹ From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude.

¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth may no more terrify.

⁵ For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

³¹ He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate; ²³ for Jehovah will plead their cause, and strip the soul of those who plunder them.

¹ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

⁸ If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry! ⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

³⁴ to crush all the prisoners of the earth under His feet;

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger without right.

¹ Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink. ² The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days shall come on you that He will lift you up with meat hooks, and your sons with fishhooks. ³ And you shall go out at the breaches, each woman straight before her. And you shall cast down the high place, says Jehovah.

² And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

⁹ You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.

⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?

¹³ For he who has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy, and mercy exults over judgment.

⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.