Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, so they might prosper, nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
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waxen.

Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked--becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Job 15:27, 28
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh, . . .

Job 21:23, 24
One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease. . . .

Psalm 73:6, 7, 12
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them. . . .

Psalm 119:70
Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.

Amos 4:1
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, "Bring us more to drink."

James 5:4, 5
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. . . .

overpass.

Jeremiah 2:33
How skillfully you pursue love; even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

Ezekiel 5:6, 7
But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.' . . .

Ezekiel 16:47-52
You not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.

judge.

Jeremiah 22:15-19
Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him. . . .

Job 29:12-14
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper. . . .

Psalm 72:4
May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor.

Psalm 82:2-4
"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah . . .

Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'

yet.

Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure--those who carry their god in their hands.

Psalm 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked--always carefree as they increase their wealth.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
'They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They have become fat and sleek. They have also excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up cases, such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper, and they have not defended the rights of the needy.

International Standard Version
and have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to their evil deeds. They don't argue the case of the orphan to secure justice. They don't defend the rights of the poor.

NET Bible
That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
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