Servant: Hired: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor. …

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

…look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

“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.

Do not take along any gold or silver or copper in your belts.

Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

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.