Job 24:4

In 11 translations

BSB

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

KJV

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

WEB

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

ASV

They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

LSV

They turn aside the needy from the way, || Together have hid the poor of the earth.

YLT

They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

DBY

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

DRC

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

GNV

They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

JPS

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

LXXE

They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יַטּ֣וּ אֶבְיוֹנִ֣ים מִדָּ֑רֶךְ יַ֥חַד חֻ֝בְּא֗וּ עֲנִיֵּי־אָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐξέκλιναν ἀδυνάτους ἐξ ὁδοῦ δικαίας, ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἐκρύβησαν πρᾳεῖς γῆς.

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• Proverbs 28:28When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.
• Job 24:14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
• Amos 2:7They 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 practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
• Proverbs 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
• Ezekiel 18:18As 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.
• Job 31:16If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
• Micah 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of…
• James 5:4–6Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and…
• Proverbs 28:12When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
• Isaiah 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
• Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
• Psalms 41:1Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
• Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Psalms 109:16For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
• Ezekiel 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

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