Job 31:13-15

13 If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,
when they brought a complaint against me,
14what then shall I do when God rises up?
When he amakes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
15Did bnot he who made me in the womb make him?
And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Isaiah 58:3

3 cWhy have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,
Or pursue your own business

eand oppress all your workers.

Isaiah 58:5-9

5 fIs such the fast that I choose,
ga day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
hto loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps iof the yoke,
to let the oppressed
Or bruised
go free,
and to break every yoke?
7Is it not kto share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
land not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 mThen shall your light break forth like the dawn,
nand your healing shall spring up speedily;
oyour righteousness shall go before you;
pthe glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you take away qthe yoke from your midst,
rthe pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

Jeremiah 34:9-17

9 sthat everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, tso that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. 10And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free. 11But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves uthey had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves. 12The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 13Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when vI brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying, 14 w‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; xyou must set him free from your service.’ But yyour fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me. 15You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes zby proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and aayou made a covenant before me in the abhouse that is called by my name, 16but then you turned around acand profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, adwhom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.

17Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me aeby proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; afbehold, I proclaim to you liberty agto the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. ahI will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Malachi 3:5

5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be aia swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those ajwho oppress the hired worker in his wages, akthe widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

James 2:13

13For aljudgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 5:4

4Behold, amthe wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and anthe cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of aothe Lord of hosts.
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