Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 24:12
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
MEN. Hebrew. _methim_. App-14. CITY. The Septuagint adds "and houses". GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4....
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
מֵ֘ עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים ׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְ נֶֽפֶשׁ ־חֲ
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...
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....
_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...
(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...
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...
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...
_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...
Men groan from out of the city, strong men moan with the torture to which they are put, which threatens their very lives, AND THE SOUL OF THE WOUNDED CRIETH OUT, as the wicked attack them with weapons...
THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
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...
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...
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...
Job 24:12 dying H4962 groan H5008 (H8799) city H5892 souls H5315 wounded H2491 out H7768 (H8762) God...
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...
_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...
_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 24:2 Job describes the injustices of the wicked (vv. Job 24:2) and the effects of the injustices on their victims (vv. Job 24:5
_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...
2 Peter 3:15; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ecclesiastes 8:12;...