Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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.

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 drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, go they 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 arise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Job 24:14

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

Amos 2:7

That trample on the dust of the earth which is 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 maiden, to defile my holy name:

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Psalm 41:1

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Psalm 109:16

Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.

Proverbs 28:12

When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

Proverbs 30:14

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

Isaiah 10:2

To turn aside the needy from justice, 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!

Ezekiel 18:12

Has oppressed the poor and needy, has robbed by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 18:18

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

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

James 5:4-6

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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