New Revised Standard Version
For they have crushed and abandoned the poor, they have seized a house that they did not build.

Contemporary English Version
because they cheated the poor and took their homes.

New American Bible
Because he has oppressed and neglected the poor, and stolen a house he did not build;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Because

Job 21:27,28 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me. . . .

Job 22:6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 24:2-12 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them. . . .

Job 31:13-22,38,39 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: . . .

Job 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

1 Samuel 12:3,4 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you. . . .

Psalm 10:18 To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no more presume to magnify himself upon earth.

Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.

Proverbs 22:22,23 Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate: . . .

Ecclesiastes 4:1 I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.

Amos 4:1-3 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink. . . .

James 2:6,13 But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats? . . .

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

oppressed.

Deuteronomy 28:33 May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times.

Lamentations 3:34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

he hath violently

Job 18:15 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

Job 24:2 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

1 Kings 21:19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

Isaiah 5:7,8 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry. . . .

Micah 2:2,9 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. . . .