Verse 4

They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:28 : 28 When the wicked rise, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'
  • Job 24:14 : 14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper.
  • Job 30:25 : 25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the needy?
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David.
  • Ps 109:16 : 16 Because he did not remember to show kindness but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted to their death.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land, 5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit? 6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it. 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,
  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.