TO OPPRESS, defraud, extort — to keep back from a person what is owed to him, or to take by force what is his. In the Torah it is first a wrong against a fellow's property, the extortion a guilt offering must repay at Leviticus 5:21–23 (6:2–4 in the English shelf), and then, twice, a wrong against a hired man's wages: Leviticus 19:13, you shall not oppress your neighbour… the wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you until morning, and Deuteronomy 24:14, you shall not oppress a hired man who is poor and needy. The phrase oppress a hired man stands in one verse of the Hebrew Bible, that one; Malachi 3:5 (not yet on these pages) turns it into a class of person, those who oppress the hired man in his wages, listed with sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; and the noun osheq is the prophets' word for what the powerful do to the rest — Ezekiel 22:29, the people of the land have practised extortion. The shelf at 24:14: KJV 'oppress', NIV 'take advantage of', NWT 1984 'defraud', Douay 'refuse the hire of', RV 1909 «hacer agravio», RV60 «oprimir», NVI «aprovecharse de». → first discussed at Deut 24:14