Job 24:4
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
In other translations
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Proverbs 28:28When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.
- Job 24:14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
- Amos 2:7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
- Ezekiel 22:29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
- Psalm 109:16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
- Amos 8:4-64 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, 5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. 6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- Proverbs 28:12When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
- Ezekiel 18:18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
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