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Job 24:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

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He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.




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