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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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....
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רֹ֤ומּוּ מְּעַ֨ט ׀ וְֽ אֵינֶ֗נּוּ וְֽ
הֻמְּכ֗וּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...
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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...
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ARE GONE:
_ Heb._ are not
TAKEN OUT:
_ Heb._ closed up...
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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 g...
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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...
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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...
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Job 24:24 exalted H7426 (H8804) while H4592 low H4355 (H8717) out
H7092 (H8735) way H1870 out...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and
for Job would be more apparent.
⇐ ⇔...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 17:5; Isaiah 17:6; James 1:11; James 5:1; Job 20:5;...
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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....