Job 24:4 Cross References - Leeser

⁴ They chase the needy out of the highway: altogether hide themselves the poor of the earth.

¹⁴ With the earliest light riseth the murderer, he slayeth the poor and needy, and in the night he becometh like the thief.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.

²⁵ Did I not weep for him that was hard pressed by misfortune? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

¹⁶ If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall in vain hopes;

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(41:2) Happy is he that careth for the poor: on the day of evil will the Lord deliver him.

¹⁶ For the reason that he remembered not to show kindness; but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the grieved in heart to put him to death.

¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, must at length give to the rich, and come only to want.

¹² When the righteous exult, there is great splendor; but when the wicked rise up, a man hath to be sought for.

²⁸ When the wicked rise, men conceal themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.

¹⁴ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

² To turn aside from judgment the needy, and to rob the just due of the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may plunder the fatherless!

¹² The poor and needy he over-reacheth, he is guilty of robberies, the pledge he restoreth not, and to the idols he lifteth up his eyes, abominations he committeth:

¹⁸ His father, because he unjustly withheld wages, was guilty of robbery on his brother, and did that which is not good in the midst of his people,—and lo, he died through his iniquity.

²⁹ The people of the land are guilty of extortion, and practise robbery, and the poor and the needy they defraud: and they extort from the stranger with injustice.

⁷ That are eager after the dust of the earth 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 young woman, in order to profane my holy name.

⁴ Hear this, O ye that are greedy to swallow the needy, and to ruin the poor of the land, ⁵ Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell provision? and the sabbath, that we may open the corn-warehouses, making the ephah small, and increasing the shekel, and cheating with deceitful balances? ⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the corn?

¹ Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage.