Holy Scripture
Job 24:4
A church father on this verse
“They have turned the needy out of the way; and have oppressed together the meek of the earth. For by the term of 'poverty,' humility is very often denoted, and very often they that appear gentle and humble, if they have not learnt to maintain discretion, fall by the examples of other men. But there are some Heretics,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4They have turned aside the weak from the right way: And the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
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In context
2While the ungodly have passed over the bound, Carrying off the flock with the shepherd?
3They have led away the ass of the fatherless, And taken the widow’s ox for a pledge.
— Job 24:4 —
5And they have departed like asses in the field, Having gone forth on my account according to their own order: His bread is sweet to his little ones.
6They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: The poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.