Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
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.
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- waxen
- Deuteronomy 32:15; Job 15:27, 28; Job 21:23, 24; Psalm 73:6, 7, 12; Psalm 119:70; Amos 4:1; James 5:4, 5
- overpass
- Jeremiah 2:33; Ezekiel 5:6, 7; Ezekiel 16:47–52; 1 Corinthians 5:1
- judge
- Jeremiah 22:15–19; Job 29:12–14; Psalm 72:4; Psalm 82:2–4; Isaiah 1:23; Zechariah 7:10
- yet
- Jeremiah 12:1; Job 12:6; Psalm 73:12