i returned

Job 6:29
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

Malachi 3:18
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not."

and considered

Ecclesiastes 3:16
Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Exodus 1:13, 14, 16, 22
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly . . .

Exodus 2:23, 24
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. . . .

Exodus 5:16-19
No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, 'Make bricks!' Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people." . . .

Deuteronomy 28:33, 48
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. . . .

Judges 4:3
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Judges 10:7, 8
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites, . . .

Nehemiah 5:1-5
About this time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. . . .

Job 24:7-12
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. . . .

Psalm 10:9, 10
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his dragnet. . . .

Proverbs 28:3, 15, 16
A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. . . .

Isaiah 5:7
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.

Isaiah 51:23
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: 'Lie down, so we can walk over you.' And you made your back like the ground, and like a street to be traversed.

Isaiah 59:7, 13-15
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. . . .

Malachi 3:5
"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me, " says the LORD of Hosts.

the tears

Psalm 42:3, 9
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" . . .

Psalm 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink their full measure of tears.

Psalm 102:8, 9
All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule and curse me. . . .

Malachi 2:13
And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

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.

they had

Job 16:4
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Job 19:21, 22
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. . . .

Psalm 69:20
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

Psalm 142:4
Look to my right and see, no one attends to me; there is no refuge for me, no one cares for my soul.

Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of a poor man hate him--how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

Lamentations 1:2, 9
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. . . .

Matthew 25:26
You wicked, lazy servant!' replied his master. 'You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

2 Timothy 4:16, 17
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them. . . .