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Job 24:12

Modern English Version

Men groan from outside the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out; yet God does not charge them with wrong.

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And then He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to Me from the ground.

They press out oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

“They are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways nor abide in its paths.

If the whip kills suddenly, He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Why do the wicked despise God? He says in his heart, “You will not require an account.”

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy sigh, now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he yearns.”

These things have you done, and I kept silent; you thought that I was indeed like you; but I will rebuke you and make a case before your eyes.

For they persecute him whom You have struck, and they recount the pain of those whom You have wounded.

for that is his only covering; it is his garment for his body. In what else will he sleep? And when he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

Again I turned and observed all types of oppression that are done under the sun: Behold, the tears of the oppressed, and no one was there to comfort them. There was force from the hand of the oppressors, and no one was there to comfort them.

Now therefore, what do I have here, says the Lord, seeing that My people have been taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them make them wail, says the Lord, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.

Righteous are You, O  Lord, that I plead with You. Indeed, let me talk with You about matters of justice. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

You have planted them; indeed, they have taken root; they grow; indeed, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their mind.

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied Him?” When you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

And now we call the proud blessed, for those who do wickedness are built up; they even test God and escape.”

Keep in mind that the patience of our Lord means salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul has also written to you according to the wisdom given to him.

They removed the foreign gods from among them and worshipped the Lord, and He could no longer endure the suffering of Israel.




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