Job's friends had maintained that sinners are cut off immediately, Job counters that God actually allows sinners to prosper for some time, even until they grow up into maturity like ripened heads of grain, but they are cut off.
Verse Job 24:24. _THEY ARE EXALTED FOR A LITTLE WHILE_] Such tyrants are exalted for a time, for God putteth down one and raiseth up another; but he turns his hand against them, and they are gone. Th...
THEY ARE EXALTED FOR A LITTLE WHILE - This was the proposition which Job was maintaining. His friends affirmed that the wicked were punished for their sins in this life, and that great crimes would so...
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...
The other picture drawn by Job's own hand to exhibit the actual truth. Such (Job 24:18), according to the popular imagination, is the fate and history of the wicked; the following (Job 24:22) is their...
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...
To be translated as above. The wicked are exalted, rise high in life, and suddenly, with no pain, they die; comp. ch. Job 21:13; Psalms 73:4. And when they are brought low at last in death, it is a na...
THEY ARE EXALTED FOR A LITTLE WHILE, &C.— _His exaltation should be but for a short time, and he should be no more: yea, he shall be brought low; he shall be moved down like the green fodder, or cropp...
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 DRAWETH ALSO THE MIGHTY WITH HIS POWER: HE RISETH UP, AND NO MAN IS SURE OF LIFE._ Reply of Job to the opinions of the friends. Experience proves the contrary. Translate, 'But He (God) prolongeth...
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....
TOPS OF THE EARS OF CORN] Egyptian wall-paintings show that the ripe corn was cut just below the ears instead of near the ground as with us. The straw was ploughed in....
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...
God decides how long a person will live. And God decides when these wicked people will die. A wicked man may be powerful. And nobody may dare to oppose that man. But when God acts, that man will die....
רֹ֤ומּוּ מְּעַ֨ט ׀ וְֽ אֵינֶ֗נּוּ וְֽ הֻמְּכ֗וּ...
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...
(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...
THEY ARE EXALTED FOR A LITTLE WHILE,.... To seats of honour, to places of profit and trust, to great wealth and riches, to be highly esteemed among men, and to have a large affluence of the good thing...
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. Ver. 24. _They are exalted for a little w...
_They are exalted for a little while_ They live in honour and prosperity, but not for ever; it is only, at the most, during this short and mortal life, which lasts but for a very little time; and, the...
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, they perish like the rest, AND CUT OFF AS THE TOPS OF THE EARS OF CORN, the spikes of the...
Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...
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...
ARE GONE: _ Heb._ are not TAKEN OUT: _ Heb._ closed up...
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...
They live in honour and happiness, but not for ever, but only at best during this short and mortal life, which lasteth but for a very little time, and therefore their present happiness is not to be en...
Job 24:24 exalted H7426 (H8804) while H4592 low H4355 (H8717) out H7092 (H8735) way H1870 out...
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. ⇐ ⇔...
_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...
Isaiah 17:5; Isaiah 17:6; James 1:11; James 5:1; Job 20:5;...
The way — Out of this world. Other — They can no more prevent or delay their death, than the meanest men in the world. Corn — In its greatest height and maturity....