Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 24 connects to 10 cross-references. Job asks why the Almighty does not set times of judgment in which the wicked are punished. He catalogs injustices that God apparently tolerates: the wicked move boundary stones, oppress the poor, take widows as pledges, and murderers operate under …
Other Translations
They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
Cross References
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that …
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the …
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of …
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they …
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good …