Job 24:4 Cross References - Rotherham

⁴ They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

¹⁴ With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.

¹² Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

²⁵ Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy.

¹⁶ If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;

¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Melody of David.]
How happy is he that is attentive to the poor, In the day of calamity, will Yahweh deliver him:

¹⁶ Because that he remembered not to show lovingkindness, but pursued the man that was oppressed and needy, that, the downhearted, he might slay.

¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.

¹² In the exulting of the righteous, there is great glorying, but, when the lawless arise, a man must be sought for.

²⁸ When lawless men rise, a common man will hide himself, but, when they perish, righteous men multiply.

¹⁴ A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors,––to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, from among men.

² Turning aside, from judgment, the poor, And robbing, of justice, the oppressed of my people,––So that, widows, become, their spoil, And, of the fatherless, they make prey.

¹² The oppressed and the needy, hath treated with violence, Hath ruthlessly plundered, The pledge, hath not restored, But, unto the manufactured gods, hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination, hath wrought;

¹⁸ His father, Because he exacted unjust gain, Seized plunder of a brother, And, that which was not good, had done in the midst of his people, Therefore lo! he died, in his iniquity.

²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice.

⁷ Who strive to bring the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and, the way of the oppressed, they pervert,––Yea, a man and his own father, go in unto the maid, to profane my holy Name!

⁴ Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land: ⁵ Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights: ⁶ Who buy––for silver––the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes,––and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.

¹ Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds,––in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand. ² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.

⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered: ⁵ Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter; ⁶ Ye sentenced––ye murdered the Righteous one! Is he not arraying himself against you?