Job 9:24
For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: he covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it be not he, who is it?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
23For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.
25But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:4And the king hid his face: and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Abessalom! Abessalom my son!
Esther 7:8And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Will you even force my wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.
Job 12:6even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.
Job 16:11He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp spear he has struck me down upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.
Job 24:25But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?
Psalms 17:14And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them. 1
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 →