Job 24:12

From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 rows of these men; they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

13These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:10And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto 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 children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

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

Psalms 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?

Psalms 50:21These things hast thou done, and should I have kept silence? Thou hadst thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set the cause 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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