Job 24:4 Cross References - CLV

⁴ They turn aside the needy from the way; The humble of the earth must hide together.

¹⁴ When the light is gone the murderer arises; He dispatches the humble and needy one; And in the night he becomes stealthy as a thief.

¹² For I made a way of escape for the humble who implored, And the orphan and him who had no helper.

²⁵ Would I not lament for one in hardship of days? My soul was always sorry for the needy.

¹⁶ If I have withheld the desire of the poor And have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ Happy is he who is acting intelligently toward the poor and needy; In a day of peril, Yahweh shall provide his escape."

¹⁶ Because he did not remember to show kindness, And he persecuted the humbled man and the needy one And the sore of heart, to put him to death."

¹⁶ He who extorts from the poor to increase his gain And he who gives to the rich will surely come to want.

¹² When the righteous are glad there is great felicity everywhere, Yet when the wicked rise humanity must lie low."

²⁸ When the wicked rise, humanity must get concealed, Yet when they perish, the righteous increase."

¹⁴ A breed of men whose teeth are swords, And whose canines are knives, To devour the humble from the earth And the needy from mankind."

² to turn the poor aside from adjudication, and to pillage in judgment the humble of My people, for widows to become their loot, and orphans are they plundering."

¹² The afflicted and needy he has oppressed, Plunder he has taken violently away, A pledge he does not return, And unto the idols he has lifted up his eyes, Abomination he has done!"

¹⁸ His father--because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which [is] not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity."

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed--without judgment."

⁷ They are gasping to have the soil of the earth on the head of the poor, and the way of the humble are they turning aside, yet a man and his father are going to the same maiden, that they may violate the holy name of their Elohim."

⁴ Hear this, you who are snuffing up the needy in the morning, and who eradicate the humble of the land, ⁵ saying, when will the new moon pass, that we may retail victuals, and the sabbath, that we may open out the cereal, to make the ephah measure small, and to make the shekel weight great, and to distort the scales by deceit, ⁶ to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for the sake of a pair of sandals? Even the tailings of the cereal we will retail!"

¹ Woe to devisers of lawlessness and contrivers of evil on their beds! In the light of the morning are they executing it, for it is at the disposal of their hand." ² And they covet fields and snatch them, and houses, and bear them away, and they extort the master and his house, the man and his allotment."

⁴ Lo! the wage of the workers, who mow your country places, which has been withheld by you, is crying, and the imploring of the reapers has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts." ⁵ You luxuriate on the earth, and squander. You nourish your hearts as in a day of slaughter." ⁶ You convict, you murder the just; he is not resisting you."