Job 24:4
2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
- KJV
- They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- WEB
- They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- ASV
- They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- DARBY
- They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
- BLB
- They push the needy off the road; together are hidden the poor of the land.
- ÅB
- Fattigfolk trenger de ut av veien; alle de saktmodige i landet må skjule seg.
- OTB
- De skyver de trengende av veien;
De fattige i landet må gjemme seg sammen. - B1930
- Fattigfolk trenger de ut av veien; alle de saktmodige i landet må skjule sig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.
Read in contextJob 24:14
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
Read in contextAmos 2:7
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
Read in contextJames 5:4–6
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Read in contextPsalms 41:1
Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:2
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
Read in contextMicah 2:1–2
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
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