Job 20:19

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“For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.”

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BSBPD

“For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For he oppressed--he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 20:19 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 28:33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
  2. 1 Samuel 12:3Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”
  3. 1 Kings 21:19Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
  4. Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
  5. Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
  6. Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
  7. Job 24:2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
  8. Job 31:13If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
  9. Job 31:38if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
  10. Job 35:9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
  11. Psalms 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
  12. Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
  13. Psalms 12:6The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
  14. Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
  15. Proverbs 22:22Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
  16. Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
  17. Ecclesiastes 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
  18. Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
  19. Lamentations 3:34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
  20. Ezekiel 22:29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
  21. Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
  22. Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
  23. Amos 5:12For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
  24. Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

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