Job 24:12
Out of a populous city is groaning heard, and the soul of the deadly wounded crieth out: yet God regardeth it not as an offence.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
11Within their walls do they make oil, they tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.
13Yon men are of those that rebel against the light: they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
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 this long time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their complaint came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Judges 10:16And they put away the strange gods from their midst, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the trouble of Israel.
Psalms 10:13For what doth the wicked despise God? [why] doth he say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?
Psalms 50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
Psalms 109:22For poor and needy am I, and my heart is deeply 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 →