Job 24:4

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They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

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  • Prov 28:28 : 28 When the wicked rise, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'
  • Job 24:14 : 14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper.
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the needy?
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he did not remember to show kindness but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted to their death.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land, 5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit? 6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it. 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

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    2People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

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  • Job 24:5-11
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    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

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    7They spend the night naked without clothing, having no covering in the cold.

    8They are drenched by the mountain rains and embrace the rocks for lack of shelter.

    9They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

    10They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

    11They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

    4Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

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    14The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

  • Job 22:9
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    9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

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    6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.

  • Ps 10:10
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    10He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall by his strong claws.

  • Job 24:14
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    14At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'

  • Isa 26:6
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    6The feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the needy, will trample it.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and withers; the exalted of the earth languish.

  • Job 34:28
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    28He causes the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • Job 5:5
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    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • Job 30:5
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    5They are driven out from among society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A poor man who oppresses the needy is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

  • Prov 30:14
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    14There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

  • Ps 14:6
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    6You frustrate the plans of the poor, but the LORD is their refuge.

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    24They are exalted for a little while, but then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, and like the heads of grain, they are cut off.

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    16One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.

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    5Those who say, 'By our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is lord over us?'

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    31Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

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    24Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself; do not reject us forever.

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    4Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'

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    16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

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    13Bury them together in the dust; bind their faces in the hidden place.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate.

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    1Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

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    7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.

  • Prov 14:20
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    20The poor are hated even by their own neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • Ps 10:14
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    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

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    16In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

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    3They are gaunt from poverty and hunger; they gnaw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.