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Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Nehemiah 5:7–9

and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them / and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say. / So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

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Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Job 24:3–9

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. / They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. / Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

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Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Matthew 18:28–30

But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ / So his fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you back.’ / But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

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