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Jeremiah 5:28

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 28 They have grown fat and smooth;
  They overflow with evil.
  
  They do not plead the legal case of the fatherless,+
  That they may gain success;
  And they deny justice to the poor.’”+

Jeremiah 5:28

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 28 They have grown fat;+ they have become shiny. They have also overflowed with bad things.* No legal case have they pleaded,+ even the legal case of the fatherless boy,+ that they may gain success;+ and the judgment of the poor ones they have not taken up.’”

Jeremiah 5:28

The Bible in Living English
- 28 ** and fat. They have thought, and also wrought, wicked things: they have not executed justice, the justice due to an orphan, so as to prosper, nor vindicated poor men’s rights.

Jeremiah 5:28

American Standard Version
- 28 They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Jeremiah 5:28

The Emphasized Bible
- 28 They have waxed fat, they shine, Yea they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right have they not determined, The right of the fatherless that they might prosper,—Yea justice to the helpless have they not decreed.

Jeremiah 5:28

King James Version
- 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Jeremiah

Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
- 5:28 w78 1/1 13; w78 12/15 11; w41 351; w37 93, 276; w36 76