4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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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.
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.
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:
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!
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job’s friends had been very positive in it that they should soon see the fall of wicked people, how much soever they might prosper for a while. By no means, says Job; though times are not hidden from the Almighty , yet those that know him do not presently see his day , Job 24:1. 1. He takes it for granted that times are not hidden from the Almighty; past times are not hidden from his judgment (Ecc…
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