Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 24:9
They — The oppressors. Pluck — Out of covetousness; they will not allow the mother time for the suckling of her infant.
They — The oppressors. Pluck — Out of covetousness; they will not allow the mother time for the suckling of her infant.
Verse Job 24:9. _THEY PLUCK THE FATHERLESS FROM THE BREAST_] They forcibly take young children in order that they may bring them up in a state of _slavery_. This verse is the commencement of a new par...
THEY PLUCK THE FATHERLESS FROM THE BREAST - That is, they steal away unprotected children, and sell them, or make slaves of them for their own use. If this is the correct interpretation, then there ex...
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...
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...
_They pluck_ Or, THERE ARE WHO PLUCK. The reference is to the ruling class who, for some debt perhaps of the dependent, seize the infant of the debtor, in order by selling it or bringing it up as a sl...
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...
24:9 poor. (d-14) Or 'take in pledge what the poor has on him.'...
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....
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...
יִ֭גְזְלוּ מִ שֹּׁ֣ד יָתֹ֑ום וְֽ עַל ־עָנִ֥י
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...
They pluck the fatherless (i) from the breast, and take a pledge of (k) the poor. (i) That is, they so pillage and plunder the poor widow that she cannot sustain herself that she may be able to nurse...
_Robbed. Hebrew and Septuagint, "snatched from the breast." --- Stript. Septuagint, "knocked down." Hebrew, "taken a pledge of, or seized the poor." (Calmet)_...
(2) Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. (3) They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (4) They turn the needy out of t...
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...
THEY PLUCK THE FATHERLESS FROM THE BREAST,.... Either on purpose to starve it, which must be extremely barbarous; or to sell it to be brought up a slave; or by obliging the mother to wean it before th...
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. Ver. 9. _They pluck the fatherless from the breast_] What can be more to be pitied than a fatherless suckling? Who less to be...
_They_ The wicked oppressors; _pluck the fatherless from the breast_ Either out of cruelty, not sparing poor infants, or out of covetousness, not allowing the mother time for the suckling of her infan...
THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, snatching orphans from the arms of their mothers in order to bring them up as slaves, AND TAKE A PLEDGE OF THE POOR, what little is left to the miserable one...
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...
Here are more injustices that God never seems to correct. People steal fatherless babies from their mothers, pledges are taken from the poor, and they are reduced to labor and toil while being hungry...
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...
THEY; the wicked oppressors, as is manifest from the following words. FROM THE BREAST; either out of cruelty, not sparing poor infants, but killing them; or out of covetousness, and with design either...
Job 24:9 snatch H1497 (H8799) fatherless H3490 breast H7699 pledge H2254 (H8799) poor H6041...
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 24:2 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 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:5...