Verse 4

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.