Job Chapter 24 verse 4 Holy Bible
They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
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They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - They turn the needy out of the way. Either "they force poor men to turn out of the road when they are using it, and wait till they have passed" (compare the recent practice of the Japanese daimios), or "they make the highways so dangerous with their violence that they compel the poor and needy to seek byways for safety" (Judges 5:6). The second hemistich favours the latter interpretation. The poor of the earth (or, the meek of the earth) hide themselves together. In the East there have always been superior and subject races, as well as proud nobles and down-trodden men of the same race. It is not clear of which of these two Job speaks. The former were often hunted out of all the desirable lands, and forced to fly to rooks and caves and holes in the ground, whence they were known as "Troglodytes." The latter, less frequently, handed together, and withdrew to remote and sequestered spots, where they might hope to live unmolested by their oppressors (Hebrews 11:38).
