King James Version
Job 24:12 in the King James Version says “Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.” — study this verse from Job chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.”
Job 24:12 · KJV
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“from out of the city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“Men”
H4962properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
“and the soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“crieth out”
H7768properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e., freedom from some trouble)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“layeth”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
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