Job 24:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:28 : 28 When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, may the LORD deliver him.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the righteous rejoice, great is the glory, but when the wicked rise to power, people are sought out.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land. 5 You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 6 We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so. 2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 5 You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.

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  • Job 24:2-3
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    2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

  • Job 24:5-11
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    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

    7They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

    8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

    9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

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

    11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

    4Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!

  • Ps 37:14
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    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Job 22:9
    74%

    9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.

  • Prov 24:34
    74%

    34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

  • Ps 10:10
    74%

    10His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.

  • Job 24:14
    73%

    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

  • Isa 26:6
    73%

    6It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the oppressed, by the soles of the poor.”

  • Isa 24:4
    73%

    4The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.

  • Job 34:28
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    28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

  • Job 5:5
    73%

    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Job 30:5
    73%

    5They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–

  • Prov 28:3
    73%

    3A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • Prov 30:14
    72%

    14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.

  • Ps 14:6
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    6You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the LORD is their shelter.

  • Job 24:24
    72%

    24They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Ps 12:5
    72%

    5“Because of the violence done to the oppressed, because of the painful cries of the needy, I will spring into action,” says the LORD.“I will provide the safety they so desperately desire.”

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31The one who oppresses the poor has insulted his Creator, but whoever honors him shows favor to the needy.

  • Ps 44:24
    72%

    24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

  • Jer 5:4
    72%

    4I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

    16Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

  • Job 40:13
    71%

    13Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

  • Prov 22:22
    71%

    22Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,

  • Isa 24:1
    71%

    1The Lord Will Judge the Earth Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

  • Ps 113:7
    71%

    7He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

  • Prov 14:20
    71%

    20A poor person will be disliked even by his neighbors, but those who love the rich are many.

  • Ps 107:40
    71%

    40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

  • Ps 10:14
    71%

    14You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

  • Job 24:16
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    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

  • Amos 4:1
    71%

    1Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”

  • Job 30:3
    71%

    3gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.