Job 24:3,4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They drive away the ass of the fatherless Whose helpless condition required their pity and mercy. He says, the ass, to aggravate their sin, in that they robbed him who had but one ass. They take the widow's ox Thereby depriving her, not only of the ox itself, but of all the benefit of its labours, by which her life was sustained; for a pledge Contrary to God's law, first written in men's hearts, and afterward in the Holy Scriptures, Exodus 22:26. They turn the needy out of the way Out of the way of piety and virtue. They engage them to take evil courses by their examples, or promises, or threatenings. Or, out of their right, of which they deprive them, by subtlety or power. Or, rather, as the word מדרךְ, middarech, more properly signifies, and as the next clause explains it, out of the highway, out of the path or place in which these oppressors walk and range. These needy persons labour to keep out of their way for fear of their further injuries and oppressions. The poor of the earth hide themselves, &c. For fear of these wicked tyrants and persecutors.