Job 24:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

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  • Prov 28:28 : 28 When the wicked rise vp, men hide them selues: but when they perish, ye righteous increase.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They gape ouer the head of the poore, in the dust of the earth, and peruert the wayes of the meeke: and a man and his father will goe in to a mayde to dishonour mine holy Name.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Blessed is he that iudgeth wisely of the poore: the Lord shal deliuer him in ye time of trouble.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When righteous men reioyce, there is great glory: but when the wicked come vp, the man is tried.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle, 5 Saying, When will the newe moneth bee gone, that we may sell corne? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheate, and make the Ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifie the weights by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Wo vnto them, that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it because their hande hath power. 2 And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the hire of ye labourers, which haue reaped your fieldes (which is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth, and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of hostes. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye haue condemned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 Or hath oppressed the poore and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 His father, because he cruelly oppressed and spoyled his brother by violence, and hath not done good among his people, loe, euen he dyeth in his iniquitie.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.

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  • Job 24:2-3
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    2Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

    3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

  • Job 24:5-11
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    82%

    5Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.

    6They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.

    7They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

    8They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.

    9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

    10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

    11They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    2To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle,

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    79%

    3Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

    4Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Ps 37:14
    75%

    14The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

  • Job 22:9
    74%

    9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.

  • Ps 10:2
    74%

    2The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

  • Ps 94:6
    74%

    6They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.

  • Ps 10:10
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    10He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.

  • Job 24:14
    73%

    14The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7They gape ouer the head of the poore, in the dust of the earth, and peruert the wayes of the meeke: and a man and his father will goe in to a mayde to dishonour mine holy Name.

  • Isa 26:6
    73%

    6The foote shall treade it downe, euen the feete of the poore, and the steppes of the needie.

  • Isa 24:4
    73%

    4The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened.

  • Job 34:28
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    28So that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and he hath heard the cry of the afflicted.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.

  • Job 5:5
    73%

    5The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

  • Job 30:5
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    5They were chased forth fro among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.

  • Prov 30:14
    72%

    14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.

  • Ezek 22:29
    72%

    29The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6You haue made a mocke at the counsell of the poore, because the Lord is his trust.

  • Job 24:24
    72%

    24They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

  • Ps 12:5
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    5Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.

  • Ps 44:24
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    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Therefore I saide, Surely they are poore, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

    16So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.

  • Job 40:13
    71%

    13(40:8) Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in a secret place.

  • Prov 22:22
    71%

    22Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.

  • Isa 24:1
    71%

    1Beholde, the Lorde maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.

  • Ps 113:7
    71%

    7He raiseth the needie out of the dust, and lifteth vp the poore out of the dung,

  • Prov 14:20
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    20The poore is hated euen of his own neighbour: but the friendes of the rich are many.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40He powreth cotempt vpon princes, & causeth them to erre in desert places out of the way.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.

  • Amos 5:11
    71%

    11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, & maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.

  • Job 24:16
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    16They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

  • Amos 4:1
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    1Heare this worde, ye kine of Bashan that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, & destroy the needie, and they say to their masters, Bring, and let vs drinke.

  • Job 30:3
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    3For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.