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 ass 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, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:28

When the wicked rise, sane men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous multiply.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Amos 2:7

desiring that there be dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and to twist the way of the humble: and the man and his father have gone in unto the same maid, profaning my holy name:

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 31:16

If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he that understands regarding the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

Psalm 109:16

Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the man who is poor in spirit and destitute and broken in heart, that he might slay him.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.

Proverbs 28:12

When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, the sane man hides himself.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their molars as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the destitute from among men.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the poor from right judgment and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people that widows may be their prey and that they may rob the fatherless!

Ezekiel 18:12

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

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have done violence unto the poor and needy; they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and cut off the poor of the land,

Micah 2:1-2

Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.

James 5:4-6

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

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