Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 24:21
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not, plundering her who has no children to protect her, and doeth not good to the widow, showing himself unmerciful to all the defenseless.
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not, plundering her who has no children to protect her, and doeth not good to the widow, showing himself unmerciful to all the defenseless.
Verse Job 24:21. _HE EVIL ENTREATETH THE BARREN_] I believe the original word ולה should be translated _he feedeth_, and so the _Vulgate_ understood the word: _Pavit enim sterilem_. He has been kind...
HE EVIL ENTREATETH THE BARREN - The woman who has no children to comfort or support her. He increases her calamity by acts of cruelty and oppression. To be without children, as is well known, was rega...
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 ...
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...
HE EVIL ENTREATETH. See translation below....
This verse is closely connected with the last clause of the preceding. And wickedness shall be broken like a tree Even he that devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good unto the wid...
This detailed and graphic picture of the enormities of wicked men (Job 24:2) suggests the question, What then is the fate of such men? Are they seized by the sudden judgments of God and delivered into...
The popular creed regarding the fate of the wicked in God's government of the world....
c. The unhappy fate of the wicked (Job 24:18-25) TEXT 24:18-25 18 SWIFTLY THEY _PASS AWAY_ UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the viney...
_HE IS SWIFT AS THE WATERS; THEIR PORTION IS CURSED IN THE EARTH: HE BEHOLDETH NOT THE WAY OF THE VINEYARDS._ In these verses Job quotes the opinion of his adversaries, ironically: he quoted them so b...
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....
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...
Wicked people may continue their evil behaviour for a long time. But in the end, they will die. And then, they cannot continue their evil deeds. They will not return from hell. They will never carry o...
רֹעֶ֣ה עֲ֭קָרָה לֹ֣א תֵלֵ֑ד וְ֝ אַלְמָנָ֗ה לֹ
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...
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...
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...
He (x) evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. (x) He shows why the wicked will not be lamented, because he did not pity others....
_Fed the barren. That is, the harlot. Or else, he hath fed; that is, he hath fed upon the barren; that is, the poor and desolate. (Challoner) --- He has not had posterity, but pleasure, in view, when...
(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. ...
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...
HE EVIL ENTREATETH THE BARREN, [THAT] BEARETH NOT,.... Here Job returns, to give some further account of the sins of some wicked men, who prosper in this world, and go through it with impunity; and sp...
He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. Ver. 21. _He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not_] Who had more need to be comforted than further afflicted....
_He evil-entreateth the barren_ Job here returns to the declaration of his further acts of wickedness, the causes of these judgments; _that heareth not_ Barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach; a...
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...
God eventually drags off the oppressor of the less fortunate, "who when He judges causes people to have no confidence that they will live" _(Zuck p. 112)._...
18-25 Sometimes how gradual is the decay, how quiet the departure of a wicked person, how is he honoured, and how soon are all his cruelties and oppressions forgotten! They are taken off with other m...
HE; either, 1. God, who is oft understood, who having cut off his person, and brought him to his grave, continues his judgments upon his wife or widow, and family. Or rather, 2. The oppressor, who is...
Job 24:21 preys H7462 (H8802) barren H6135 bear H3205 (H8799) good H3190 (H8686) widow H490 evil -...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and for Job would be more apparent. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:21 Job notes the prevalence of injustice to the BARREN, CHILDLESS WOMAN and the WIDOW. The care of such helpless people was an important part of the law (see...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 1:6; 1 Samuel 1:7; Job 24:3; Job 29:13; Job 31:16...
He — He here returns to the declaration of his farther wickednesses, the cause of these judgments. Barren — Barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach; and so he added affliction to the afflicted....