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Job 20:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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crushed.

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Job 21:27‑28• ²⁷Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
²⁸For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked? (Job 21:27‑28)

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Job 22:6• ⁶For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked. (Job 22:6)

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Job 24:2‑12• ²They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
⁴They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
⁵Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.
⁶They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;
⁷They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
⁸They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock …
⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
¹⁰These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
¹¹They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
¹²Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety. (Job 24:2‑12)

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Job 31:13‑22,38‑39• ¹³If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
¹⁴What then should I do when *God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?
¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?
¹⁶If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
¹⁸(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)
¹⁹If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
²⁰If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
²¹If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
²²Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
³⁸If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners: (Job 31:13‑22,38‑39)

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Job 35:9• ⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty: (Job 35:9)

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1 Sam. 12:3‑4• ³Here I am: testify 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 injured? or of whose hand have I received any ransom and blinded mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.
⁴And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, and thou hast not injured us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand. (1 Sam. 12:3‑4)

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Psa. 10:18• ¹⁸To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more. (Psa. 10:18)

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Psa. 12:5• ⁵Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff. (Psa. 12:5)

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Prov. 14:31• ³¹He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoureth Him is gracious to the needy. (Prov. 14:31)

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Prov. 22:22‑23• ²²Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
²³for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them. (Prov. 22:22‑23)

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Eccl. 4:1• ¹And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter. (Eccl. 4:1)

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Eccl. 5:8• ⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they. (Eccl. 5:8)

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Ezek. 22:29• ²⁹The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:29)

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Amos 4:1‑3• ¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:
²the Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that behold, days shall come upon you, when he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks;
³and ye shall go out by the breaches, every one straight before her, and ye shall be cast out to Harmon, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:1‑3)

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James 2:6,13• ⁶But *ye* have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not *they* drag you before the tribunals?
¹³for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment. (James 2:6,13)

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. (James 5:4)

oppressed.

Heb. crushed.

Deut. 28:33• ³³The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually. (Deut. 28:33)

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Lam. 3:34• ³⁴To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, (Lam. 3:34)

he hath violently.

Job 18:15• ¹⁵They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation: (Job 18:15)

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Job 24:2• ²They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them; (Job 24:2)

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1 Kings 21:19• ¹⁹And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine. (1 Kings 21:19)

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Isa. 5:7‑8• ⁷For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.
⁸Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land! (Isa. 5:7‑8)

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Mic. 2:2,9• ²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
⁹The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever. (Mic. 2:2,9)

• The unfinished house he took remains as a monument of his crime. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

• Much that he hints at here is directly charged by Eliphaz against Job. The friends thus strengthen one an-other in their determination to establish their theory that Job is the wicked hypocrite they depict, suffering for his own misdeeds. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken awaya a house that he did not build.

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Or "he pillaged."