Jeremiah 5:28
They are grown fat, they are stout; yea, they surpass even the deeds of the wicked: they pronounce no [just] sentence, the sentence of the fatherless, that they might prosper; and the cause of the needy do they not judge.
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Job 12:6Prosperous are the tents of robbers, and security is given to those that provoke God. to him who carrieth his god in his hand.
Job 21:23That this one dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
Psalms 72:4He shall judge the afflicted of the people, he shall give help to the children of the needy; but he shall crush the oppressor.
Psalms 73:6Therefore is pride their neck-chain: violence envelopeth them as a garment.
Psalms 82:2How long will ye judge unjustly, and treat with favor the face of the wicked? Selah.
Proverbs 15:25The Lord, will tear down the house of the proud; but he will set up firmly the boundary [-stone] of the widow.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:26-31
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet… Read the whole commentary →