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 orphan. 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 Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:28

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

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

Amos 2:7

They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of lowly (meek) persons. They reject the humble! A man and his father have sexual relations with the same maiden, to profane my holy name.

Job 29:12

This is because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.

Job 30:25

Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was I not 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

([Psalm of David]) Blessed (happy) is the one who has concern for helpless people. Jehovah will rescue (save) him in times of trouble.

Psalm 109:16

for he did not remember to be kind. He drove oppressed, needy, and brokenhearted people to their graves.

Proverbs 22:16

He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.

Proverbs 28:12

When righteous people rejoice, there is great glory, but when wicked people rise, people hide themselves.

Proverbs 30:14

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

Isaiah 10:2

They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.

Ezekiel 18:12

He oppresses the poor and needy. He robs. He does not return the security for a loan. He looks to idols for help. He does disgusting things.

Ezekiel 18:18

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

Ezekiel 22:29

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

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail.

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).

James 5:4-6

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.

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