Job 9:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:30

And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.

2 Samuel 19:4

But the king, covering his face, gave a great cry, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Esther 6:12

And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

Esther 7:8

Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

Job 10:3

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Job 12:17

He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

Job 16:11

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

Job 19:7

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

Job 22:8

For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

Job 24:12

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

Job 24:25

And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

Job 32:2

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

Psalm 17:14

With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Jeremiah 14:4

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

Daniel 4:17

This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.

Malachi 2:17

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?