Job 24:4

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

³ “They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
⁴ “They push the needy aside from the road;
The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.
⁵ “Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness
They go forth seeking food in their activity,
As bread for their children in the desert.

Hid Themselves

Of the World

Poor and Needy

Poor of the Land

Turn Aside

Of The Earth

Job

Proverbs 28:28

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves;
But when they perish, the righteous increase.

Job 24:14

“The murderer arises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he is as a thief.

Amos 2:7

“These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the helpless
Also turn aside the way of the humble;
And a man and his father resort to the same girl
In order to profane My holy name.

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

Job 30:25

“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 31:16

“If I have kept the poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 41:1

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

Psalm 109:16

Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,
But persecuted the afflicted and needy man,
And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself
Or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 28:12

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,
But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a kind of man whose teeth are like swords
And his jaw teeth like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.

Isaiah 10:2

So as to deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor of My people of their rights,
So that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the orphans.

Ezekiel 18:12

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but lifts up his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.

James 5:4-6

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.