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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Job 24 - Introduction

* Wickedness often unpunished. (1-12) The wicked shun the light. (13-17) Judgements for the wicked. (18-25)

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See also Job 24 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 23-24. JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ. He dwells on the mystery of Providence. He cannot put his own personal conviction of final justification forward as a general solution of the problem. Hence he seems...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Divine Rectitude which Job misses in his own instance he equally misses on the broad field of the World The same thought of the absence of any righteous rule of the world is carried through this...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TODAY'S ENGLISH VERSION 1 Why doesn-'t God set a time for judging, a day of justice for those who serve him? 2 Men move boundary markers to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 Uz (a-9) See Lamentations 4:21 . perfect (b-18) Complete, lacking nothing; cf. 2 Samuel 22:24 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO JOB 24 This chapter contains the second part of Job's answer to the last discourse of Eliphaz, in which he shows that wicked men, those of the worst characters, prosper in the world,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Job shows that open sinners are often prosperous, Job 24:1. That secret sinners often pass undiscovered, Job 24:13. That God punishes such by secret judgments, and reserves th...

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