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12 From the city people groan,
and the throat[a] of the wounded cries for help;
yet[b] God does not regard it as unseemly.[c]
13 “Those are among the ones rebelling against the light;
they do not recognize his ways,
and they do not stay in his paths.
14 At dusk[d] the murderer rises;
he kills the needy and the poor,
and in the night he is like a[e] thief.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:12 Or “soul,” or “inner self”
  2. Job 24:12 Hebrew “and”
  3. Job 24:12 Literally “he puts offensiveness”
  4. Job 24:14 Literally “At the light”
  5. Job 24:14 Or “the”

12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(A)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(B)

13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(C)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(D)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills(E) the poor and needy,(F)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.(G)

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