🌪️WEB · Job 34:27

What does Job 34:27 mean?

"because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,"

— Job 34:27 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

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Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

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because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

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so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

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When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

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that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

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