The Scriptures speak much about the rich and powerful overriding the rights of the poor by violence and craft: Here are just a few verses about it:

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

Ezekiel 34:18

Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

Ps.94:6

They slay the widow and the stranger And murder the orphans.

Exodus 23:7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty!