Job 24:4

Easy-to-Read Version

They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road.

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.

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

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.

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 doesn't God All-Powerful set times for judgment? And why can't his followers know when those times will be? ² "People move property markers to get more of their neighbor's land. People steal flocks and lead them to other grasslands. ³ They steal a donkey that belongs to an orphan. They take a widow's cow until she pays what she owes them. They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. ⁴ They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. ⁵ "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. ⁶ They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. ⁷ They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. ⁸ They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry. They press out olive oil and walk on grapes in the winepress, but they have nothing to drink. In the city you can hear the sad sounds of dying people. Those who are hurt cry out for help, but God does not listen. "Some people rebel against the light. They don't know what God wants. They don't live the way he wants. A murderer gets up at dawn and kills poor, helpless people. And at night he becomes a thief. A man who commits adultery waits for the night to come. He thinks, ‘No one will see me,' but still, he covers his face. When it is dark, evil people go out and break into houses. But during the day they lock themselves in their homes to avoid the light. The darkest night is their morning. They are friends with the terrors of darkness. " You say, ‘Evil people are taken away like things carried away in a flood. The land they own is cursed, so no one goes to work in their vineyards. As hot, dry weather melts away the winter snows, so the grave takes away those who have sinned. Their own mothers will forget them. Only the worms will want them. No one will remember them. They will be broken like a rotten stick! These evil people hurt women who have no children to protect them, and they refuse to help widows. By his power God removes the powerful. Even if they have a high position, they cannot be sure of their lives. They might feel safe and secure, but God is watching how they live. They might be successful for a while, but then they will be gone. Like everyone else, they will be cut down like grain.' "I swear these things are true! Who can prove that I lied? Who can show that I am wrong?" ⁹ They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. ¹⁰ They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go 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
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." Abram built an altar to honor the Lord who appeared to him there.

Genesis 24:20
So Rebekah quickly poured all the water from her jar into the drinking trough for the camels. Then she ran to the well to get more water, and she gave water to all the camels.

Genesis 24:23
The servant asked, "Who is your father? And is there a place in your father's house for me and my men to sleep?"

Genesis 28:2
So leave this place and go to Paddan Aram. Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father. Laban, your mother's brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.

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.