And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.
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TSK · Proverbs 22:16
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He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.
One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.
And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
And yf ye do good for them which do good for you, what thanke haue ye? For sinners also do euen the same.
And he cryed and sayde: father Abraham, haue mercie on me, and sende Lazarus that he may dippe the tippe of his fynger in water, and coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flambe.
Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you.