Verse 4

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

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.