Job 9:24

Modern English Version

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?

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:30

David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went. His head was covered and he went barefoot. Then all of the people who were with him each covered his head and went up, weeping as they went.

2 Samuel 19:4

The king covered his face and called with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, my son, my son!”

Esther 6:12

As Mordecai returned again to the king’s gate, Haman hurried to his house, mourning with his head covered.

Esther 7:8

Now the king returned from the palace garden back to the hall of the banquet as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also violate the queen while I am in the room?” As the shout erupted from the king’s mouth, they covered the face of Haman.

Job 10:3

Is it good for You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.

Job 16:11

God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Job 19:7

“Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

Job 22:8

But as for the mighty man, he possessed the earth, and the honorable man lived in it.

Job 24:12

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

Job 24:25

“If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?”

Job 32:2

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused; his wrath was aroused against Job because he justified himself rather than God.

Psalm 17:14

from men by Your hand, O  Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their belly with Your treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

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.

Jeremiah 14:4

Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed; they have covered their heads.

Daniel 4:17

“ ‘This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills and sets up over it the basest of men.’

Malachi 2:17

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?”