Job 24:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ They have turned the weak out of the right way; and with one consent the meek of the land are hidden

¹⁴ And hath he who knew their works delivered them up to darkness? And will he be as a thief in the night?

¹² for I saved the poor from the hand of the mighty; and assisted the orphan who had no helper.

²⁵ As for me I indeed wept for every one in trouble; and sighed, when I saw a man in distress.

¹⁶ Far from depriving the poor of what they had, or causing the heart of a widow to fail;

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. Happy he who is considerate with regard to the distressed and needy; in time of trouble the Lord will deliver him.

¹⁶ because he did not remember to shew mercy; but persecuted a man needy and afflicted: to put to death one who was broken hearted.

¹⁶ Some plunder the poor to increase their wealth and give to the rich to lessen it.

¹² For helping the righteous there is great glory: but in the places of the wicked; men are entrapped.

²⁸ In the places of the wicked, the righteous groan: but by their destruction, the righteous will be multiplied.

¹⁴ A wicked progeny have teeth like swords and grinders like cleavers, so as to consume and devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

² turning aside the cause of the distressed; robbing the poor of my people, of their right; that the widow

¹² hath oppressed the poor and needy, and been guilty of rapine; hath not restored a pledge and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols; hath done justice,

¹⁸ But as for his father, if he be guilty of rapine and oppression, he hath done wrong in the midst of my people, and for his iniquities he shall die.

²⁹ crushing by usurped authority the people of the land, and ravening prey, oppressing the poor and needy, and paying no regard to strangers to the administration of justice.

⁷ and dashed their sandals against the heads of the poor; and turned aside the way of the meek; and a son and a father went in unto the same handmaid. That they might profane the name of their God,

⁴ [p] Hear this, I beseech you, ye who every morning oppress the needy, and by your tyranny drive the poor from the land, saying, ⁵ "When will the new moon be over that we may buy? And the sabbaths, that we may open store? to make the measure small, and the weight heavy, and to make the balance uneven, ⁶ that we may purchase the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, when from every kind of product we shall have made gain.

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God. ² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance;

⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth. You have indulged voluptuousness. You have pampered your hearts, as on a day of public feasting. ⁶ You have condemned you have murdered the just one. Is he not setting himself in array against you?