Job 24:12

Job 24:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The dying groan in the city, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not charge them with wrong.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning.

Context of Job 24:12

10Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. 11They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst. The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing. 13“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths. 14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.

Job 24:12 word by word

מֵ֘עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְנֶֽפֶשׁ־חֲלָלִ֥ים תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַ וֶ֝אֱל֗וֹהַּ לֹא־יָשִׂ֥ים תִּפְלָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Menמַתmath · manH4962
• groanנָאַקnâ'aq · to groanH5008
• from out of the cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• and the soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315
• of the woundedחָלָלchâlâl · slain: woundedH2491
• crieth outשָׁוַעshâva‛ · to cryH7768
• yet Godאֱלֹהַּ'ĕlôahh 'ĕlôahh · godH433
• layethשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: putH7760
• not follyתִּפְלָהtiphlâh · follyH8604

Cross-references for Job 24:12

• Exodus 1:13and worked them ruthlessly.
• Exodus 2:23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
• Exodus 22:27because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
• Judges 10:16Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.
• Psalms 12:5“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
• Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.
• Isaiah 52:5“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord. “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock,” declares the Lord. “And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.
• Psalms 69:26For they persecute those you wound and talk about the pain of those you hurt.
• Psalms 109:22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
• Psalms 50:21When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.
• Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
• Malachi 2:17You have wearied the Lord with your words. “How have we wearied him?” you ask. By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?”
• Malachi 3:15But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’ ”
• Romans 2:4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
• 2 Peter 3:15Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.

Commentaries on Job 24:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Men groan from out of the city - This is a new paragraph. After having shown the oppressions carried on in the country, he takes a view of those carried on in the town. Here the miseries are too numerous to be detailed. The poor in such places are often in the most wretched state; they are not only badly fed, and miserably clothed, but also most unwholesomely lodged. I was once appointed with a benevolent gentleman, J. S., Esq., to visit a district in St…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Men groan from out of the city - The evident meaning of this is, that the sorrows caused by oppression were not confined to the deserts and to solitary places; were not seen only where the wandering freebooter seized upon the traveler, or in the comparatively unfrequented places in the country where the poor were compelled to labor in the wine presses and the olive presses of others, but that they extended to cities also. In what way this oppression in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12yet God charges no one with wrongdoing: Job thought that, unlike God's usual character, God did not help those treated wrong or stop evil people from hurting their victims (Exodus 2:23–24; Psalm 12:5; Job 24:2–12; 24:13–17).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-242-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 24:12

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In the dictionaries

• God
• Covering
• Light
• Pluck
• Tread
• Fool; Folly
• Groan
• Job, Book of
• Lay; Laying
• Palestine

Commentaries on Job 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary