Job 24:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַטּ֣וּ אֶבְיוֹנִ֣ים מִדָּ֑רֶךְ יַ֥חַד חֻ֝בְּא֗וּ עֲנִיֵּי־אָֽרֶץ

Transliteration

They yaṭṭû ʾebyônîm from dāreḵ yaḥad ḥubbəʾû ʿăniyyê-ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*yaṭṭû*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they turn aside/push away'
*ʾebyônîm*: noun masculine plural - 'needy ones'
*dāreḵ*: noun masculine singular with preposition *min* - 'from way/road'
*yaḥad*: adverb - 'together/alike'
*ḥubbəʾû*: pual perfect 3rd person plural - 'are hidden/forced to hide'
*ʿăniyyê-ʾāreṣ*: noun masculine plural construct 'poor of' + noun feminine singular 'land/earth'

Word Meanings

*yaṭṭû*: turn aside/push away/thrust away
*ʾebyônîm*: needy ones/poor people
*dāreḵ*: way/road/path
*yaḥad*: together/alike/at the same time
*ḥubbəʾû*: are hidden/forced to hide/concealed
*ʿăniyyê-ʾāreṣ*: poor of the land/afflicted of the earth

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Referenced Verses

Prov 28:28 : 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.
Amos 2:7 : 7 they 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 go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
Job 30:25 : 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Ps 41:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.
Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them].
Prov 22:16 : 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.
Prov 28:12 : 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Mic 2:1-2 : 1 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. 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts {G5613} in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
Prov 30:14 : 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.
Isa 10:2 : 2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezek 18:12 : 12 hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Ezek 18:18 : 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed {H1499} his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

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