Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“They push the needy aside from the road;
The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.

King James Version

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Holman Bible

They push the needy off the road;
the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

International Standard Version

They push the needy off the road, and force the poor of the land into hiding.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“They crowd the needy off the road;
The poor of the land all hide themselves.

Bible in Basic English

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

Darby Translation

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

Julia Smith Translation

They will turn the needy from the Way: the poor of the earth hid themselves together.

King James 2000

They drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They thrust [the] poor off the road; [the] needy of [the] earth hide themselves together.

Modern King James verseion

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.

NET Bible

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

Webster

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the needy
H34
אביון 
'ebyown 
Usage: 61

out of the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

the poor
עני 
`aniy 
Usage: 75

of the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

חבא 
Chaba' 
Usage: 33

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; 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, like wild donkeys in the desert the poorgo out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:28

When the wicked rise, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

Amos 2:7

those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Job 30:25

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 31:16

"If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him;

Psalm 109:16

For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or 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, people hide themselves.

Proverbs 30:14

There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Ezekiel 18:12

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

Ezekiel 18:18

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

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

James 5:4-6

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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