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Job 20:19 — Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Because		Job 21:27,28; Job 22:6; Job 24:2-12; Job 31:13-22,38,39; Job 35:9; 1Sa 12:3,4; Psa 10:18; Psa 12:5; Pro 14:31; Pro 22:22,23; Ecc 4:1; Ecc 5:8; Eze 22:29; Amo 4:1-3; Jam 2:6,13; Jam 5:4
oppressed		Heb. crushed. Deu 28:33; Lam 3:34
he hath violently		Job 18:15; Job 24:2; 1Ki 21:19; Isa 5:7,8; Mic 2:2,9

Correlating Passages

Because

	Job 21:27	Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.
	Job 21:28	For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?
	Job 22:6	For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
	Job 24:2	[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
	Job 24:3	They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
	Job 24:4	They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
	Job 24:5	Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
	Job 24:6	They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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	Job 31:13	If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
	Job 31:14	What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
	Job 31:15	Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
	Job 31:16	If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
	Job 31:17	Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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	Job 31:38	If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
	Job 31:39	If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
	Job 35:9	By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
	1Sa 12:3	Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
	1Sa 12:4	And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
	Psa 10:18	To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
	Psa 12:5	For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him.
	Pro 14:31	He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
	Pro 22:22	Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
	Pro 22:23	For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
	Ecc 4:1	So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of [such as were] oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors [there was] power; but they had no comforter.
	Ecc 5:8	If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.
	Eze 22:29	The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
	Amo 4:1	Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
	Amo 4:2	The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
	Amo 4:3	And ye shall go out at the breaches, every [cow at that which is] before her; and ye shall cast [them] into the palace, saith the LORD.
	Jam 2:6	But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
	Jam 2:13	For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
	Jam 5:4	Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

oppressed

	Deu 28:33	The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
	Lam 3:34	To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

he hath violently

	Job 18:15	It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
	Job 24:2	[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
	1Ki 21:19	And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
	Isa 5:7	For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
	Isa 5:8	Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
	Mic 2:2	And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
	Mic 2:9	The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

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