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 to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
• Jer 12:1–2You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Ps 73:3–7For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Job 21:7–15“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
• 2 Sam 15:30David 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 each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
• Job 24:25If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
• Dan 4:17The sentence 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 rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
• Hab 1:14–17and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
• Job 16:11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me 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 had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
• Ps 17:14from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
• Dan 7:7–28After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
• Job 12:6–10The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Jer 14:4Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land. The plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.
• 2 Sam 19:4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”
• Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
• Dan 5:18–21You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
• Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
• Esth 6:12Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

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