Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 24:4 in other translations
| BSB | They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth. |
| DARBY | They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves. |
| BBE | The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together. |
| Webster | They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. |
What does Job 24:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 24:1-12
Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, "God…
Job 24:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 24:4
- Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
- Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
- Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
- Amos 2:7
That 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:
- James 5:4-6
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
- Psalms 41:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
- Isaiah 10:2
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
- Micah 2:1-2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Proverbs 30:14
There 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.
- Ezekiel 18:12
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
- Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 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? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
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Context
- Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- Job 24:5
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Job 24:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hacen apartar del camino á los menesterosos: y todos los pobres de la tierra se esconden. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils détournent du chemin les pauvres; les malheureux de la terre se cachent ensemble: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | sie stoßen aus dem Wege die Dürftigen. Die Elenden des Landes verkriechen sich allesamt: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Subverterunt pauperum viam, et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terræ. |