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 10:3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
• Jer 12:1–2Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Ps 73:3–7For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Job 21:7–15Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
• 2 Sam 15:30And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
• Job 24:25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
• Dan 4:17This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
• Hab 1:14–17And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
• Job 16:11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
• Esth 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
• Ps 17:14From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
• Dan 7:7–28After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
• Job 12:6–10The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
• Jer 14:4Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
• 2 Sam 19:4But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
• Job 12:17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
• Dan 5:18–21O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
• Job 32:2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
• Esth 6:12And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

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