Job 24:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Cross References

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy and in the night is like a thief.

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried and the orphan who had no helper.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 31:16

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail

Job 31:19

if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing or a poor person without covering,

Psalm 109:16

For he did not remember to show kindness but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.

Psalm 41:1

Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

Proverbs 28:12

When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked prevail, people go into hiding.

Proverbs 28:28

When the wicked prevail, people go into hiding, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Ezekiel 18:12

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he died for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”