Job 24:12

12. Men groan By changing the pointing of מתים ( men) to מתים ( the dead,) Ewald, Zockler, etc., read, “Out of the cities the dying groan;” but, against this, is the past participal form mathim, ( the dead.)

From out of the city Like scenes of enormity to those that darken desert and town are enacted within the crowded city, where, on the contrary, might be expected some outflow of sympathy, and not only the power, but the disposition, to redress wrong.

The wounded The slain, (Furst.) Even cold prose does not disdain to speak of “the cry of the slayers and the slain.” Thucydides, 7:70, 71.

Crieth out To heaven for vengeance, (Hitzig.)

Layeth not Regardeth not. The שׂים is the same as in Job 23:6, which see.

Folly In the sense of abomination or anomaly, subversive of all moral order in the world. Note on chap. Job 1:22. Omit to them.