Job 24:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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 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 will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him 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 poor?
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 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth{H8688)} the poor: the LORD will deliver{H8762)} him in time of trouble.
Ps 109:16 : 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Prov 22:16 : 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Prov 28:12 : 12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, 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 take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and 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 judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Ezek 18:12 : 12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, 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, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

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