Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts

…and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them …

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. …

But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ …