Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 24:18-21
The popular creed regarding the fate of the wicked in God's government of the world.
The popular creed regarding the fate of the wicked in God's government of the world.
Verse Job 24:18. _HE_ IS _SWIFT AS THE WATERS_] Literally, _Light is he on_ _the face of the waters: and cursed shall be their portion on the_ _earth_, which Mr. _Good_ translates: - Miserable is thi...
HE IS SWIFT AS THE WATERS - Noyes renders this, “They are as swift as the skiff upon the waters.” Dr. Good, “Miserable is this man upon the waters.” Wemyss, “Such should be as foam upon the waters.” L...
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. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "and he". BEHOLDETH. returneth. THE. to the....
HE IS SWIFT AS THE WATERS— _He curseth the coming day: his portion shall be cursed upon earth: he shall not enjoy the treading of his vineyards._ Houb. But Heath renders it, _He was scared at the sigh...
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...
24:18 He (f-1) i.e. the wicked man, -- carried away rapidly as a waif upon the waters....
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...
HE IS SWIFT. — That is — each of these rebels against the light _is swift to make his escape over the face of the waters._ So we ought to read it, and not, with Authorised Version, as a comparison. T...
קַֽל ־ה֤וּא ׀ עַל ־פְּנֵי ־מַ֗יִם תְּקֻלַּ֣ל...
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 [is] swift as the (r) waters; their (s) portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. (r) He flees to the waters for his succour. (s) They think that all the world is...
He is light, &c. That is, the adulterer, that he may not be perceived and discovered, steps as nimbly and as light as if her were walking upon the waters. Or the sense is: he is as light, that is, as...
(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 [IS] SWIFT AS THE WATERS,.... Or "upon the face of the waters" y; which some interpret of another set and sort of wicked men, guilty of like crimes, not on land, but upon the mighty waters; pirates...
He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. Ver. 18. _He is swift as the waters_] He stays not long in a place, but flees away swiftl...
_He is swift as the waters_ That is, the wicked man quickly passeth away, with all his glory, as the waters, which never stay in one place, but are always hasting away. _Their portion_ Or, _his_ porti...
Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...
He is swift as the waters, he is swept away irresistibly, as by a flood; THEIR PORTION IS CURSED IN THE EARTH, whatever they have called their own; HE BEHOLDETH NOT THE WAY OF THE VINEYARDS, that is,...
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...
These verses appear to be the opposite of what Job has just said, therefore some scholars assign these words (18-24) to Zophar. Others say that Job is now quoting what his friends had said about the w...
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...
In these words he describes either, 1. The wicked man's disposition and deportment, that such persons are _light_ and frothy in their spirits, or _swift_ or _hasty_ to do evil, or _unstable_ in their...
Job 24:18 swift H7031 face H6440 waters H4325 portion H2513 cursed H7043 (H8792) earth H776 turn H6437 ...
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 24:18 Job restates his friends’ assertions to show that they seem to ignore the actual state of affairs on earth. ⇐...
_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...
Deuteronomy 28:16; Isaiah 23:10; Malachi 2:2; Proverbs 3:33; Psal
Swift — That is, he quickly passeth away with all his glory, as the waters which never stay in one place, but are always hasting away. Portion — His habitation and estate which he left behind him. He...