12The 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.


In Context

9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

11 They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

12 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.

14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.

Job 24:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:12From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:12From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God imputeth it not for folly.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:12Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.