They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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Gill's Exposition
They turn the needy out of the way,.... Either, in a moral sense, out of the right way, the way of righteousness and truth, by their bad examples, or by their threatenings or flatteries; or, in a…
Barnes' Notes
They turn the needy out of the way - They crowd the poor out of the path, and thus oppress and injure them. They do not allow them the advantages of the highway. The poor of the earth hide themselves…
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…
Cambridge Bible
"Turning the needy out of the way" is a general expression for doing them wrong, hindering them of their just rights; comp. Amo 5:12. The last clause "the poor hide themselves together" seems to sum…
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