The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know th
Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children an
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debt
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvest