Job 22:5-9

5Is not your evil abundant?
There is no end to your iniquities.
6For you have ^aexacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
^band stripped the naked of their clothing.
7You have given no water to the weary to drink,
and you have ^cwithheld bread from the hungry.
8 ^dThe man with power possessed the land,
and ^ethe favored man lived in it.
9You have ^fsent widows away empty,
and ^gthe arms of ^hthe fatherless were crushed.

Job 24:2-16

2Some move ⁱlandmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they ^jtake the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4They ^kthrust the poor off the road;
the poor of the earth ^lall hide themselves.
5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor ▼

▼Hebrew they

ⁿgo out to their toil, ^oseeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
6They gather their ▼

▼Hebrew his

fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7They ^qlie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and ^rcling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10They go about naked, without clothing;
hungry, they ^scarry the sheaves;
11among the olive rows of the wicked ▼

▼Hebrew their olive rows

they make oil;
they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
12From out of the city the dying groan,
and the soul of ^uthe wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with ^vwrong.
13 “There are those who rebel ^wagainst the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways,
and do not stay in its paths.
14The murderer rises before it is light,
that he ^xmay kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer also waits for ^ythe twilight,
saying, ‘No ^zeye will see me’;
and he veils his face.
16In the dark they ^aadig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.

Proverbs 11:24-26

24 ^abOne gives ^acfreely, yet grows all the richer;
another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
25 ^adWhoever brings blessing ^aewill be enriched,
and ^afone who waters will himself be watered.
26 ^agThe people curse him who holds back grain,
but ^aha blessing is on the head of him who ^aisells it.

Amos 2:6-7

Judgment on Israel

6Thus says the Lord:

^aj“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^akthey sell the righteous for ^alsilver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
7those who trample the head of the poor ^aminto the dust of the earth
and ^anturn aside the way of the afflicted;
^aoa man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;

Amos 8:6

6that we may buy the poor for ^apsilver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

Micah 3:1-3

Rulers and Prophets Denounced

1 And I said:
^aqHear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
^arIs it not for you to know justice?—
2you ^aswho hate the good and love the evil,
^atwho tear the skin from off my people ▼

▼Hebrew  from off them

and their flesh from off their bones,
3 ^avwho eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.