Job 24:12

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Summary

Job 24:12

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

Groan

Isaiah 52:5

Wounded

Psalm 69:26

Psalm 109:22

Yet god

General references

Psalm 109:10

Bible References

Groan

And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel serve with harshness.

And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

For that is his covering only, it is his clothing for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And it will be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Jehovah. And His soul was moved by the misery of Israel.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

Now therefore, what have I here, says Jehovah, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule make them howl, says Jehovah; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day.

Wounded

For they persecute him whom You have stricken, and they talk to the grief of those You pierced.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Yet god

These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was like yourself, but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

And think of the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation (as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him

General references

Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins.