Quotes about Inequality
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- Proverbs 30:14
When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
- Ecclesiastes 5:9
Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.
- Ecclesiastes 10:6
I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
- Ecclesiastes 10:7
The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.
- Isaiah 3:5
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 3:15
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Isaiah 10:2
Feet trample it down—the feet of the oppressed, the steps of the poor.
- Isaiah 26:6
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
- Isaiah 59:8
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
- Jeremiah 5:28