Job 24:4
Good News Translation
They prevent the poor from getting their rights and force the needy to run and hide.

New Revised Standard Version
They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Contemporary English Version
The poor are trampled and forced to hide

New American Bible
They force the needy off the road; all the poor of the land are driven into hiding.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.

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Job 24:14 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.

Job 31:16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:

Psalm 109:16 because he remembered not to shew mercy,

Proverbs 22:16 He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.

Proverbs 30:14 A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

Isaiah 10:2 To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

Ezekiel 18:12,18 That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes to idols, that comitteth abomination: . . .

Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.

Amos 2:7 They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

Amos 8:4-6 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place. . . .

Micah 2:1,2 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee. . . .

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Proverbs 28:12,28 In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked reign, men are ruined. . . .

James 5:4-6 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. . . .

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
3They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge. 4They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.5Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.…
Cross References
Job 24:14
The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.

Job 29:12
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

Job 29:16
I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

Job 30:25
I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.

Job 31:19
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

Psalm 41:1
Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

Proverbs 14:31
He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.

Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise up, men shall hide themselves: when they perish, the just shall be multiplied.

Amos 8:4
And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.

Job 24:3
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