Parallel Verses
NET Bible
They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Holman Bible
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.
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
Natah
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Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
3 They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as a pledge. 4 They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together. 5 Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Job 24:14
Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Amos 2:7
They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
Job 29:12
for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
Job 30:25
Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job 31:16
If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Psalm 41:1
For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, the Lord delivers him.
Psalm 109:16
For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.
Proverbs 22:16
The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich -- both end up only in poverty.
Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous rejoice, great is the glory, but when the wicked rise to power, people are sought out.
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.
Isaiah 10:2
to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
Ezekiel 18:12
oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice.
Amos 8:4-6
Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
Micah 2:1-2
Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
James 5:4-6
Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.