Job 24:4

Easy To Read Version

They force the poor people to wander\par from place to place without a home.\par All the poor people are forced to hide\par from these evil people.\par

Cross References

Job 24:14

A murderer gets up early in the morning,\par and kills poor, helpless people.\par And at night he becomes a thief.\par

Job 29:12

Why? Because when the poor person\par cried out for help, I helped.\par And I helped the child that had no parents\par and no one to care for him.\par

Job 29:16

I was like a father for poor people.\par I helped people I didn’t even know\par win their arguments in court.\par

Job 30:25

God, you know that I have cried for people in trouble.\par You know that my heart was very sad for poor people.\par

Job 31:16

“I have never refused to help poor people.\par I always gave widows what they needed.\par

Job 31:19

When I found people suffering\par because they didn’t have clothes,\par or a poor man with no coat,\par

Psalm 109:16

Why? Because that evil man\par never did anything good.\par He never loved anyone\par He made life hard for poor, helpless people.\par

Psalm 41:1

A person who helps poor people succeed\par will get many blessings. {\cf2\super [256]} \par When trouble comes,\par the Lord will save that person.\par

Proverbs 14:31

The person that causes trouble for poor people shows that he does not respect God—God made both people. But if a person is kind to poor people, then he shows honor to God.

Proverbs 22:16

These two things will make you poor—hurting poor people to make yourself rich, and giving gifts to rich people.

Proverbs 28:12

When good people become leaders, everyone is happy. But when an evil person is elected, all people go and hide.

Proverbs 30:14

There are people whose teeth are like swords. Their jaws are like knives. They use their time to take everything they can from poor people.

Isaiah 10:2

Those lawmakers are not fair to the poor people. They take away the poor people’s rights. They allow people to steal from widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [112]}

Ezekiel 18:12

He might mistreat poor, helpless people. He might take advantage of people. He might not give back the collateral {\cf2\super [134]} when a person pays his debt. That evil son might pray to those filthy idols and do other terrible things.

Ezekiel 18:18

The father might hurt people and steal things. He might never do anything good for my people! That father will die because of his own sins. \{But the son won’t be punished for his father’s sins.\}

Ezekiel 22:29

“The common people take advantage of each other. They cheat and steal from each other. They get rich by taking advantage of poor helpless beggars. And they really cheat the foreigners-they are not fair to them at all!

Amos 2:7

They pushed those poor peoples’ faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons have sexual relations with the same woman. They have ruined my holy name.

Amos 4:1

Listen to me, you cows of Bashan {\cf2\super [48]} on Samaria’s mountain. You hurt poor people. You crush those poor people. You tell your husbands, {\cf2\super [49]} “Bring us something to drink!”