Job 20:19
Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Samuel 12:3Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: If I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.
Job 18:15Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
Job 22:6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 31:13If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
Job 35:9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out : and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.
Psalms 12:5Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?
Matthew Henry on Job 20:11-23
Misery of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:… Read the whole commentary →