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King James Version

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

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

New Living Translation
The poor are pushed off the path; the needy must hide together for safety.
English Revised Version
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Update Bible Version
They turn the needy out of the way: 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.
Webster's Bible Translation
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
World English Bible
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Amplified Bible
"They crowd the needy off the road; The poor of the land all hide themselves.
English Standard Version
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei distrieden the weie of pore men, and thei oppressiden togidere the mylde men of erthe.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that thrust the poore out of the waye, & oppresse the symple of the worlde together.
New American Standard Bible
"They push the needy aside from the road; The poor of the land have to 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 American Standard Bible (1995)
"They push the needy aside from the road; The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.
Legacy Standard Bible
They push the needy aside from the road;The afflicted of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.

Contextual Overview

1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. 6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. 10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf 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
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him.
Genesis 24:20
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Genesis 24:23
And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy 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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