Because

Job 21:27, 28
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me. . . .

Job 22:6
For you demanded security from your brothers without cause, stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

Job 24:2-12
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. . . .

Job 31:13-22, 38, 39
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, . . .

Job 35:9
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

1 Samuel 12:3, 4
Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you. . . .

Psalm 10:18
to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 12:5
"For the cause of the oppressed and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise, " says the LORD. "I will bring safety to him who yearns."

Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 22:22, 23
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, . . .

Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again, I observed all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and higher still are over them.

Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and exploited the foreign resident without justice.

Amos 4:1-3
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 2:6, 13
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court? . . .

James 5:4
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.

oppressed.

Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

Lamentations 3:34
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

he hath violently

Job 18:15
Fire resides in his tent; brimstone is scattered over his home.

Job 24:2
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

1 Kings 21:19
Tell him that this is what the LORD says: 'Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?' Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: 'In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood--yes, yours!'"

Isaiah 5:7, 8
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight. He looked for justice but saw injustice; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress. . . .

Micah 2:2, 9
They covet fields and seize them, and they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. . . .