Job 24:4
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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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 rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Read in contextJob 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Read in contextAmos 2:7
That 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 will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Read in contextJames 5:4–6
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Read in contextPsalms 41:1
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:2
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Read in contextMicah 2:1–2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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