Job 24:4

The needy are pushed off the road and the poor forced into hiding. It matters as a picture of the powerless driven out by the strong.

Cross-references · 18

• Prov 28:28When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
• Job 24:14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
• Ezek 22:29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
• Amos 2:7That pant 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 maid, to profane my holy name:
• Job 30:25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
• Ps 109:16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
• Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
• Jas 5:4–6Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
• Ezek 18:18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
• Isa 10:2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
• Ps 41:1Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
• Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Prov 28:12When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
• Prov 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
• Ezek 18:12Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Prov 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

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