Job 9:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blinded to justice]. If it is not [God], who then is it [responsible for all this inequality]?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If it be not he, who then is it?

Common English Bible

²⁴ The earth is handed over to the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges. If not God, then who does?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the face of the judges thereof. And if it be not he, who is it then?

Job 9:24 Krydshenvisninger

2 Samuel 15:30

But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and walking barefoot, and all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

2 Samuel 19:4

The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Esther 6:12

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

Esther 7:8

When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had thrown himself on the couch where Esther was reclining, and the king said, “Will he even violate the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.

Job 10:3

Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.

Job 16:11

God gives me up to the evil and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 19:7

Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

Job 22:8

The powerful possess the land, and the favored live in it.

Job 24:12

From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Job 24:25

If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;

Psalm 17:14

from mortals—by your hand, O Lord— from mortals whose portion in life is in this world. May their bellies be filled with what you have stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their little ones.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Jeremiah 14:4

because the ground is cracked. Because there has been no rain on the land, the farmers are dismayed; they cover their heads.

Daniel 4:17

The sentence is rendered by decree of the watchers, the decision is given by order of the holy ones, in order that all who live may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of mortals; he gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of human beings.’

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”