Quotes about Oppression
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
— Job 10:3
He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
— Job 12:21
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
— Job 19:5
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
— Job 20:19
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
— Job 21:7
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
— Job 22:9
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
— Job 24:3
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
— Job 24:4
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
— Job 24:9
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
— Job 24:21
They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
— Job 34:28
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
— Job 35:9