Bible Verses About Creditors: Often cruel in exacting debts

And I thought in my minde, and I rebuked the princes, and the rulers, and saide vnto them, You lay burthens euery one vpon his brethren: and I set a great assemblie against them,

And I said vnto them, We (according to our abilitie) haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen: and will you sell your brethren againe, or shall they be solde vnto vs? Then helde they their peace, and could not answere.

I said also, That which ye do, is not good. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, for the reproche of the heathen our enemies?

They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.

They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.

They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

But when the seruant was departed, hee found one of his felow seruants, which ought him an hundred pence, and he layde hands on him, and thratled him, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

Then his fellow seruant fell downe at his feete, and besought him, saying, Refraine thine anger towards me, and I will pay thee all.

Yet he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the dette.