Bible verse
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Job 24:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 24.
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
KJV
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
ASV
From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.
ERV
From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God imputeth it not for folly.
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