Job 7:2
New Living Translation
2 like a worker who longs for the shade,
like a servant waiting to be paid.
Leviticus 19:13
New Living Translation
13 “Do not defraud or rob your neighbor.
“Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay.
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Deuteronomy 24:15
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15 You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don’t, they might cry out to the Lord against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.
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James 5:4
New Living Translation
4 For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Malachi 3:5
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5 “At that time I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Jeremiah 6:4
New Living Translation
4 They shout, ‘Prepare for battle!
Attack at noon!’
‘No, it’s too late; the day is fading,
and the evening shadows are falling.’
Psalm 143:6
New Living Translation
6 I lift my hands to you in prayer.
I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude
Psalm 119:131
New Living Translation
131 I pant with expectation,
longing for your commands.
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