Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
25Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:4And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Esther 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. Then the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word we
Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
Job 16:11God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 24:25And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?
Psalms 17:14from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:23-25
22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? Here Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute between him and his friends. They maintained that those who are righteous and good always prosper in this world, and none but the wicked are in misery and distress; he… Read the whole commentary →