Verse 4

They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:28 : 28 In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart -- to slay,
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 In the exulting of the righteous the glory `is' abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, 5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. 6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God. 2 And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; 5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter; 6 ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 His father -- because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which `is' not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.