Proverbs 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread
[eaten] in secret is pleasant.
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of
deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards
his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Job 24:5-
6 Behold, [
as]
wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work;
rising betimes for a prey:
the wilderness [
yieldeth] food for them [
and] for [
their] children. ...
They reap [
every one] his
corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Psalms 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who
eat up my people [
as] they eat bread,
and call not upon the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:26-
28 For among my people are found wicked [
men]: they
lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they
catch men. ... They are
waxen fat, they shine: yea, they
overpass the deeds of the wicked: they
judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Ezekiel 22:25-
29 [
There is]
a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,
like a roaring lion
ravening the prey;
they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. ... The
people of the land have used
oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger
wrongfully.
Amos 8:4-
6 Hear this, O ye that
swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, ... That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [
yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Micah 3:5 Thus saith the LORD
concerning the prophets that make my people err,
that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Micah 6:12 For
the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have
spoken lies, and their tongue [
is] deceitful in their mouth.
Zephaniah 3:3 Her
princes within her [
are] roaring lions; her judges [
are]
evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make
long prayer:
therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
James 5:4-
5 Behold,
the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and
the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the
Lord of sabaoth. ... Ye
have lived in pleasure on the earth, and
been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts,
as in a day of slaughter.
