Job 24:4
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שׁוּב
shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
עָנִי
ʻânîy
depressed, in mind or circumstances
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
סָתַר
çâthar
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
Key Terms in This Verse
שׁוּב shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Study H7725 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →דֶּרֶךְ derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Study H1870 →Cross References
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
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