Job 20:19 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁹ For he hath oppressed––hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.

³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up,––and, thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days;

³ Behold me! testify against me, before Yahweh, and before his Anointed––Whose, ox, have I taken? or whose, ass, have I taken? or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I crushed? or at whose, hands, have I taken a bribe, to cover up mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it unto you. ⁴ And they said, Thou hast not oppressed us, neither hast thou crushed us,––neither hast thou taken, at the hand of any man, any thing.

¹⁹ Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying––Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou committed murder, and also taken possession? Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying: Thus, saith Yahweh, In the place where the dogs have lapped up the blood of Naboth, shall the dogs lap up thy blood, even thine.

¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught–of–his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

²⁷ Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence! ²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble–minded? And where the dwelling–tent of the lawless?

⁶ Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill–clad, hast thou stripped off:

² Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume; ³ The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow; ⁴ They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves. ⁵ Lo! [as] wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth with their work, eager seekers for prey, the waste plain, yieldeth them food for their young; ⁶ In the field––a man’s fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries; ⁷ Ill–clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold; ⁸ With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock. ⁹ Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge; ¹⁰ Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves; ¹¹ Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine–presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty; ¹² Out of the city––out of the houses, they make outcry. and, the soul of the wounded, calleth for help, and, GOD, doth not regard it as foolish.

¹³ If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me, ¹⁴ What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him? ¹⁵ Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
¹⁶ If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed; ¹⁷ Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her: ¹⁹ If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself; ²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, ²² Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder–blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;

³⁸ If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep; ³⁹ If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions, [men] make outcry, They cry for help, by reason of the arm of the mighty;

¹⁸ To vindicate the fatherless and the crushed, A man of the earth, shall, no further, cause terror!

⁵ Because of violence done to the poor, because of the crying of the needy, Now, will I arise! O may Yahweh say,––I will place [him] in safety––let him puff at him!

³¹ The oppressor of the poor, hath reproached his Maker, but he that sheweth favour to the needy, is one who, holdeth Him in honour.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

¹ Then again, I, considered all the oppressive deeds which were done under the sun,––and lo! the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter, and, on the side of their oppressing, is power, and they have no comforter.

⁸ If, the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of justice and righteousness, thou see in the province, do not be astonished over the matter,––for, one high above the highest, is watching, yea, the Most High, is over them.

⁷ Surely, the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted,––And he waited, For, equity, but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right, but lo! the cry of the wronged.
⁸ Alas! for them who join house to house, Field to field, bring they near,––Until there is no room, But ye are left to dwell alone, in the midst of the land.

³⁴ To crush, under his feet, any of the prisoners of the earth;

²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice.

¹ Hear ye this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,––who say to their lords, Bring in, and let us drink! ² Sworn hath My Lord, Yahweh, by his own holiness, That lo! days, are coming upon you,––when he will take you away with hooks, and your followers with fishhooks; ³ And, through fissures, shall ye go out, every woman, straight before her,––and ye shall be thrust forth towards the castle, Declareth Yahweh.

² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.

⁹ The wives of my people, ye do even drive out, each from the house of her darlings,––from over her children, ye do take away mine ornament, as long as life shall last.

⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice?

¹³ For, the judgment, [will be] without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.

⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered: