Job 24:4
Some shove poor people off the road (OR, prevent poor people from ◄obtaining their rights/being treated justly►), and they force poor people to find places to hide from them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
In Context
5The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert like wild donkeys do.
Cross References
Job 29:12because I had helped the poor people when they cried out for help and I aided/helped orphans who had no one else to help them.
Job 31:16“I have guided orphans from the time that they were born; I have taken care of them since they were young. So, if it were true that I ate all my food myself and did not share some of it with orphans, or that I refused to give poor people the things that they wanted, or that I caused widows to live ◄in despair/without hope that they would receive any help from anyone►,
Psalms 109:16He never was kind to anyone; he ◄persecuted/cause problems for► poor and needy people and even killed helpless people.
Proverbs 28:12When righteous/good people ◄succeed/win elections►, everyone ◄celebrates/is happy►; but when wicked people win, everyone hides because they are afraid of what the wicked people will do.
Proverbs 30:14Some people act very cruelly toward others; it is as though [MET] they have teeth that are like sharp knives; they severely oppress poor people and try to cause them to disappear from the land.
Ezekiel 18:12He mistreats/oppresses poor and needy people. He robs people. If someone gives him his cloak to guarantee that he will pay the money back, he never gives the cloak back to him before the sun goes down. He seeks help from idols. He does other detestable things.
Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13
Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →