Job 9:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces 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?

Job 9:24 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:30

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

And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, “Will he even assault 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 thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

Job 16:11

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

Job 19:7

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

Job 22:8

The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.

Job 24:12

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul 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 the 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 men by thy hand, O Lord, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

Jeremiah 14:4

Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.

Daniel 4:17

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will, and sets over it the lowliest of men.’

Malachi 2:17

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