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Job 24:4

"They crowd the needy off the road; The poor of the land all hide themselves.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dishonesty;   Homicide;   Poor;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Needy, the;   Poor, the;   Poverty-Riches;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Creditors;   Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Widow;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Justice;   Meekness;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Meekness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They push the needy off the road;the poor of the land are forced into hiding.
Hebrew Names Version
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the eretz all hide themselves.
King James Version
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
English Standard Version
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
New Century Version
They push needy people off the path; all the poor of the land hide from them.
New English Translation
They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
New American Standard Bible
"They push the needy aside from the road; The poor of the land have to hide themselves together.
World English Bible
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
Legacy Standard Bible
They push the needy aside from the road;The afflicted of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.
Berean Standard Bible
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Contemporary English Version
The poor are trampled and forced to hide
Complete Jewish Bible
They push the needy out of the way — the poor of the land are forced into hiding;
Darby Translation
They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
Easy-to-Read Version
They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road.
George Lamsa Translation
The wicked hide themselves beside the road, and the meek of the earth hide together.
Good News Translation
They prevent the poor from getting their rights and force the needy to run and hide.
Lexham English Bible
They thrust the poor off the road; the needy of the earth hide themselves together.
Literal Translation
they turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth have hidden together.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that thrust the poore out of the waye, & oppresse the symple of the worlde together.
American Standard Version
They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Bible in Basic English
The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
King James Version (1611)
They turne the needy out of the way: the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
English Revised Version
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei distrieden the weie of pore men, and thei oppressiden togidere the mylde men of erthe.
Update Bible Version
They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Webster's Bible Translation
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
New King James Version
They push the needy off the road; All the poor of the land are forced to hide.
New Living Translation
The poor are pushed off the path; the needy must hide together for safety.
New Life Bible
They push poor people off the road. All the poor of the land are made to hide themselves.
New Revised Standard
They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
Revised Standard Version
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Young's Literal Translation
They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They push the needy aside from the road; The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.

Contextual Overview

1"Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment? Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]? 2"Some remove the landmarks; They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly]. 3"They drive away the donkeys of the orphans; They take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4"They crowd the needy off the road; The poor of the land all hide themselves.5"Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food; As bread for their children in the desert. 6"They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own], And glean the vineyard of the wicked. 7"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold. 8"They are wet from the rain of the mountains And cling to the rock for lack of shelter. 9"Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing]. 10"They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

turn: Job 24:14, Job 31:16, Psalms 109:16, Proverbs 22:16, Proverbs 30:14, Isaiah 10:2, Ezekiel 18:12, Ezekiel 18:18, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 2:7, Amos 8:4-6, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2

hide: Proverbs 28:12, Proverbs 28:28, James 5:4-6

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to [honor] the LORD who had appeared to him.
Genesis 24:20
So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran again to the well and drew water for all his camels.
Genesis 24:23
and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to lodge?"
Genesis 28:2
"Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take from there as a wife for yourself one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They turn the needy out of the way,.... Either, in a moral sense, out of the right way, the way of righteousness and truth, by their bad examples, or by their threatenings or flatteries; or, in a civil sense, out of the way of their livelihood, by taking that from them by which they got it; or, in a literal sense, obliging them to turn out of the way from them, in a supercilious and haughty manner, or causing them, through fear of them, to get out of the way, that they might not meet them, lest they should insult them, beat and abuse them, or take that little from them they had, as follows:

the poor of the earth hide themselves together; who are not only poor in purse, but poor in spirit, meek, humble, and lowly, and have not spirit and courage to stand against such oppressors, but are easily crushed by them; these through fear of them hide themselves in holes and corners in a body, in a large company together, lest they should fall into their cruel hands, and be used by them in a barbarous manner, see Proverbs 28:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They turn the needy out of the way - They crowd the poor out of the path, and thus oppress and injure them. They do not allow them the advantages of the highway.

The poor of the earth hide themselves together - For fear of the rich and mighty man. Driven from the society of the rich, without their patronage and friendship, they are obliged to associate together, and find in the wicked man neither protector nor friend. And yet the proud oppressor is not punished.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:4. They turn the needy out of the way — They will not permit them to go by the accustomed paths; they oblige them to take circuitous routes. When the Marquis of H. was made ranger of Richmond Park, he thought it his duty to shut up a pathway which had existed for a long time; and those who presumed, after this shutting up, to break the fence, and take that path as formerly, were prosecuted. A cobbler near the place entered an action against the marquis: the cause was tried, the marquis cast, and the path ordered to be opened, on the ground that it had, time out of mind, been a public undisputed path. When one asked the cobbler, "How he could have the boldness to go to law with the Marquis of H.?" he answered, "Because I did not like to leave the world worse than I found it." All tolerated oppression and voluntary forfeiture of ancient rights, are injurious to society at large, and they who wink at them leave the world worse than they found it.


 
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