Job 24:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves 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 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 in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in times of trouble.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the brokenhearted.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When righteous men rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, a man hides himself.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand. 2 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 wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose jaws are like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

    3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

  • Job 24:5-11
    7 verses
    82%

    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

    6They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

    7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, so they have no covering in the cold.

    8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.

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

    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

    11They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst.

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Amos 8:4
    79%

    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

    4Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Ps 37:14
    75%

    14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • Job 22:9
    74%

    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Ps 10:2
    74%

    2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.

  • Ps 94:6
    74%

    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Prov 24:34
    74%

    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Ps 10:10
    74%

    10He crouches and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • Job 24:14
    73%

    14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7They 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 in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:

  • Isa 26:6
    73%

    6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.

  • Isa 24:4
    73%

    4The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the proud people of the earth do languish.

  • Job 34:28
    73%

    28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Job 5:5
    73%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Job 30:5
    73%

    5They were driven out from among men, they cried after them as after a thief;

  • Prov 28:3
    73%

    3A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

  • Prov 30:14
    72%

    14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose jaws are like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

  • Ezek 22:29
    72%

    29The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

  • Job 24:24
    72%

    24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are removed out of the way like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Ps 12:5
    72%

    5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

  • Ps 44:24
    72%

    24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • Jer 5:4
    72%

    4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

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

  • Job 40:13
    71%

    13Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

  • Prov 22:22
    71%

    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

  • Isa 24:1
    71%

    1Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

  • Ps 113:7
    71%

    7He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap;

  • Prov 14:20
    71%

    20The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

  • Ps 107:40
    71%

    40He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

  • Ps 10:14
    71%

    14You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Amos 5:11
    71%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • Job 24:16
    71%

    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

  • Amos 4:1
    71%

    1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'

  • Job 30:3
    71%

    3For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste.