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Verse Job 24:12. _MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY_] This is a new
paragraph. After having shown the oppressions carried on in the
_country_, he takes a view of those carried on in the _town_. Here the...
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MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY - The evident meaning of this is, that
the sorrows caused by oppression were not confined to the deserts and
to solitary places; were not seen only where the wandering f...
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CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY
_ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_
2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10)
3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1)
4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...
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JOB 24. This chapter has since Merx in 1871 been subjected to much
criticism, the general trend of which has been to deny the whole or a
considerable part of the chapter to Job. Peake, however, consid...
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MEN. Hebrew. _methim_. App-14.
CITY. The Septuagint adds "and houses".
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4....
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These verses describe the miseries of another class, those who have
allowed themselves to be subjected, and become serfs and bondmen
attached to the estates of the rich. Probably they are but a portio...
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_Men groan from out of the city_ Rather, according to the pointing,
_from out of the populous city they groan_. In this, however, there is
no parallelism to the "soul of the wounded" in next clause. B...
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MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY— Now follow the oppressions of the
city, where the face of things is still worse; nothing to be heard but
the groans of the dying, and the cries of the wounded. _In the...
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TEXT 24:1-12
24 WHY ARE TIMES NOT LAID UP BY THE ALMIGHTY?
And why do not they that know him see his days?
2 There are that remove the landmarks;
They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
3...
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_SOME REMOVE THE LANDMARKS; THEY VIOLENTLY TAKE AWAY FLOCKS, AND FEED
THEREOF._
Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity.
SOME - the wicked.
LANDMARKS - boundaries betwee...
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LAYETH NOT FOLLY _to them_] render, 'regardeth not the wrong.'
13-17. Criminals who work at night. They hate (REBEL AGAINST) the
light of day, preferring darkness for their crimes....
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JOB'S SEVENTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-25. Job continues to express his perplexity at the ways of
Providence in the ordering of the world. The poor and the weak suffer;
violence and wrong go unpunished....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 24
JOB CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
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Many poor people suffer because of the evil actions of rich people.
PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE EVERY GOOD THING
V13 Some people oppose everything that is good. They do not know how
they should behave. Or, th...
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MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY. — Here a survey of the oppressions
wrought within the city walls is taken.
YET GOD LAYETH NOT FOLLY TO THEM. — That is, to those who are the
cause of their wrongs, the...
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מֵ֘ עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים ׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְ
נֶֽפֶשׁ ־חֲ
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XX.
WHERE IS ELOAH?
Job 23:1; Job 24:1
Job SPEAKS
THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some
reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind.
"Again today, my plain...
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NOT HERE, BUT HEREAFTER
Job 24:1
Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God,
that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then
turns to describe the life o...
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Passing from the personal aspect of his problem, Job considered it in
its wider application. He asked the reason of God's noninterference,
and then proceeded to describe the evidences of it. Men still...
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Men (m) groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth
out: yet God (n) layeth not folly [to them].
(m) For the great oppression and extortion.
(n) Cry out and call for vengeance....
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_Suffer. Hebrew, "and God suffers no disorder," according to you.
(Calmet) --- Symmachus, "God inspireth not folly: but they have," &c.,
ver. 13. Septuagint, "But why does he not regard," (Haydock) or...
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(11) Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses,
and suffer thirst. (12) Men groan from out of the city, and the soul
of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. ...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY,.... Because of the oppressions and
injuries done to them, so that not only the poor in the country that
were employed in the fields, and oliveyards, and vineyards, were...
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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth
out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
Ver. 12. _Men groan from out of the city_] viz. Under the pressures
of their oppressors. Th...
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_Which make oil within their walls_ The walls of the rich oppressors,
for their use and benefit. _And tread their wine-presses_ That is, the
grapes in their wine-presses; _and suffer thirst_ Because t...
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DOES GOD FAIL TO GOVERN PROPERLY?
(vv.1-12)
"Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? Why do not they who
know Him see His days?" (v.1 - JND trans.) Job wonders why God (who is
Almighty) do...
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1-12 Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That
many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi.
Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all th...
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MEN GROAN under the burden of injuries and grievous oppressions. FROM
OUT OF THE CITY; not only in deserts or less inhabited places, where
these tyrants have the greater opportunity and advantage to p...
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Job 24:12 dying H4962 groan H5008 (H8799) city H5892 souls H5315
wounded H2491 out H7768 (H8762) God...
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Job 24:1. _Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days?_
«Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such
prosperity?»
Job 24:2. Some remove...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The prosperity of the wicked.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: Though wicked men seem sometimes to be under the special
protection of divine providence, e...
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Job 24:3. _They drive away the ass of the fatherless._ In Job's time
there was no regular government or empire, to bring neighbouring
tyrants to justice; proof sufficient that this book is of the high...
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_Men groan from out of the city._
THE GROANS OF THE CITY
The truth is, man as he walketh upon the surface of the earth, seeth
but the surface of its inhabitants. Well is it that we see no more.
Were...
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_Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty._
GREAT CRIMES NOT ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY GREAT PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE
I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times.
Amongst t...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and
for Job would be more apparent.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:2 Job describes the injustices of the wicked (vv.
Job 24:2) and the effects of the injustices on their victims (vv. Job
24:5
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_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
Prosecutes his own view of the Divine government. Enlarges on the
crimes of one part of men and the sufferings of another as the
consequences of them, to shew...
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EXPOSITION
The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked,
whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail (Job
24:2). A single note of perplexity (Job 24:1) forms a...
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Now, why, seeing the times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days? Some [now you've accused me of these
things, but there are some] that remove the landmarks; and vio...
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2 Peter 3:15; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ecclesiastes 8:12;...
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Groan — Under grievous oppressions. Soul — The life or blood of
those who are wounded to death, as this word properly signifies,
crieth aloud to God for vengeance. Yet — Yet God doth not punish
them....