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 thrive.
• Job 24:14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
• Ezek 22:29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
• Amos 2:7They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
• Job 30:25Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
• Ps 109:16because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
• Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
• Jas 5:4–6Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Ezek 18:18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
• Isa 10:2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
• Ps 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Prov 28:12When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
• Prov 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
• Ezek 18:12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Prov 22:16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

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