Job 24:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:28 : 28 When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
  • Job 24:14 : 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; 6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power. 2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. 5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction. 6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

    3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

  • Job 24:5-11
    7 verses
    82%

    5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

    6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

    7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

    8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

    9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

    10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

    11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Amos 8:4
    79%

    4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

    4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

  • Ps 37:14
    75%

    14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

  • Job 22:9
    74%

    9 You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Ps 10:2
    74%

    2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

  • Ps 94:6
    74%

    6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

  • Prov 24:34
    74%

    34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

  • Ps 10:10
    74%

    10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

  • Job 24:14
    73%

    14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

  • Isa 26:6
    73%

    6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

  • Isa 24:4
    73%

    4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • Job 34:28
    73%

    28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

  • Job 5:5
    73%

    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Job 30:5
    73%

    5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

  • Prov 28:3
    73%

    3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

  • Prov 30:14
    72%

    14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

  • Ezek 22:29
    72%

    29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6 You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

  • Job 24:24
    72%

    24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Ps 12:5
    72%

    5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

  • Ps 44:24
    72%

    24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Jer 5:4
    72%

    4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

    16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

  • Job 40:13
    71%

    13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

  • Prov 22:22
    71%

    22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

  • Isa 24:1
    71%

    1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

  • Ps 113:7
    71%

    7 He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

  • Prov 14:20
    71%

    20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.

  • Ps 107:40
    71%

    40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

  • Ps 10:14
    71%

    14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

  • Amos 5:11
    71%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24 He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

  • Job 24:16
    71%

    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

  • Amos 4:1
    71%

    1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

  • Job 30:3
    71%

    3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.