Job 24:12

From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

In Context

11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

13These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:10And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Judges 10:16And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served LORD. And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Psalms 10:13Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?

Psalms 50:21These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

Psalms 109:22for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13

Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →

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