Job 9:24

Job complains that the earth is handed to the wicked and the judges are blindfolded, asking who is responsible if not God. He struggles with the problem of injustice.

Cross-references · 19

• Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
• Jer 12:1–2Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
• Ps 73:3–7For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Job 21:7–15Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
• 2 Sam 15:30But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.
• Job 24:25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
• Dan 4:17This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
• Hab 1:14–17You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
• Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
• Esth 7:8Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
• Ps 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
• Dan 7:7–28After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.
• Job 12:6–10The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
• Jer 14:4The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
• 2 Sam 19:4But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
• Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
• Dan 5:18–21As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
• Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
• Esth 6:12Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.

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