Job 9:24

Job chapter 9 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: Ifit benothe, who then is it?

King James Version · 1611

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

American Standard Version · 1901

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: Ifit benothe, who then is it?

v.23If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

v.24This passage

v.25Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 16:11
God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 12:17
He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.
Psalms 17:14
From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is inthislife, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Esther 7:8
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
2 Samuel 19:4
And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Habakkuk 1:14
and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?