Job 24:4 Cross References - CAB

⁴ They have turned aside the weak from the right way, and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

¹⁴ But having known their works, He delivered them into darkness; and in the night one will be as a thief.

¹² For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

²⁵ Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. Blessed is the man who thinks on the poor and needy; the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.

¹⁶ Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

¹⁶ He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.

¹² By reason of the help of righteous men great glory arises, but in the places of the ungodly men are caught.

²⁸ In the places of ungodly men the righteous mourn, but in their destruction the righteous shall be multiplied.

¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

² perverting the cause of the poor, violently seizing the judgment of the needy ones of My people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

¹² and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has worked iniquities,

¹⁸ But if his father should grievously afflict or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of My people, and shall die in his iniquity.

²⁹ That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

⁷ in which to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly; and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

⁴ Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth, ⁵ saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair? ⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

¹ They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God. ² And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

⁴ Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned; you have murdered the just. He does not resist you.