“Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;”
"For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has robbed a house which he did not build." Zophar specifies the wicked person's crimes: oppression of the poor, theft. These actions generate cosmic liability. The verse suggests that robbery and cruelty provoke retribution.
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