Job 24:4

World English Bible (2000)

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:28 : 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
  • 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 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and 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 mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, 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, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:2-3
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    2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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

  • Job 24:5-11
    7 verses
    82%

    5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

    6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

    7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

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

    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

    11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Amos 8:4
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    4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    79%

    3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

    4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • Ps 37:14
    75%

    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Job 22:9
    74%

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

  • Ps 10:2
    74%

    2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • Ps 94:6
    74%

    6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Prov 24:34
    74%

    34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Ps 10:10
    74%

    10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

  • Job 24:14
    73%

    14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Isa 26:6
    73%

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

  • Isa 24:4
    73%

    4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

  • Job 34:28
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    28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Job 5:5
    73%

    5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Job 30:5
    73%

    5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

  • Prov 28:3
    73%

    3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Prov 30:14
    72%

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

  • Ezek 22:29
    72%

    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • Job 24:24
    72%

    24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Ps 12:5
    72%

    5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Ps 44:24
    72%

    24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • Jer 5:4
    72%

    4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

    16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

  • Job 40:13
    71%

    13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

  • Prov 22:22
    71%

    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

  • Isa 24:1
    71%

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

  • Ps 113:7
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    7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

  • Prov 14:20
    71%

    20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

  • Ps 107:40
    71%

    40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • Ps 10:14
    71%

    14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Amos 5:11
    71%

    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24 He takes away understanding from 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%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

  • Amos 4:1
    71%

    1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

  • Job 30:3
    71%

    3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.