Job 9:24

New King James Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:30

So David went up by the Ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up.

2 Samuel 19:4

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

Esther 6:12

Afterward Mordecai went back 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 place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?” As the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Job 10:3

Does it seem good to 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 plundered, And makes fools of the judges.

Job 16:11

God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.

Job 19:7

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

Job 22:8

But the mighty man possessed the land, And the honorable man dwelt in it.

Job 24:12

The dying groan in the city, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not charge them with wrong.

Job 24:25

“Now 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 Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused against Job; his wrath was aroused because he justified himself rather than God.

Psalm 17:14

With Your hand from men, O Lord, From men of the world who have their portion in this life, And whose belly You fill with Your hidden treasure. They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their possession for their babes.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comforter— On the side of their oppressors there is power, But they have no comforter.

Jeremiah 14:4

Because the ground is parched, For there was no rain in the land, The plowmen were ashamed; They covered their heads.

Daniel 4:17

‘This decision is by the decree of the watchers, And the sentence by the word of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men.’

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words; Yet you say, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that 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?”