Job 24:4

They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;

5Lo! [as] wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth with their work, eager seekers for prey, the waste plain, yieldeth them food for their young;

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Cross References

Job 29:12Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

Job 31:16If I withheld—from pleasure—the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;

Psalms 109:16Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.

Proverbs 28:12In the exulting of the righteous, there is great glorying, but, when the lawless arise, a man must be sought for.

Proverbs 30:14A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors,—to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, from among men.

Ezekiel 18:12The oppressed and the needy, hath treated with violence, Hath ruthlessly plundered, The pledge, hath not restored, But unto the manufactured gods, hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination, hath wrought;

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 →

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