Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 24:6
Merx reads, 'They reap by night in the field.' They are driven to theft to get food. 'Wicked' should perhaps be 'rich.'
Merx reads, 'They reap by night in the field.' They are driven to theft to get food. 'Wicked' should perhaps be 'rich.'
Verse Job 24:6. _THEY REAP EVERY ONE HIS CORN IN THE FIELD_] This is perfectly characteristic. These wandering hordes often make sudden irruptions, and carry off the harvest of grain, olives, vines, c...
THEY REAP EVERY ONE HIS CORN - Margin, “mingled corn,” or “dredge.” The word used here (בליל _b__e__lı̂yl_) denotes, properly, “meslin,” mixed provender, made up of various kinds of grain, as of barle...
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...
EVERY ONE. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_. App-6. HIS CORN. Hebrew. _belilo_. But if divided thus, _beli lo_, it means "not his own". The word "corn" must be supplied as an _Ellipsis_ of the accusative...
Job now directs his attention to a particular class of outcasts, giving a pathetic description of their flight from the abodes of men and their herding together like wild asses in the wilderness; thei...
The verse reads, They reap their fodder in the field, And glean the vineyard of the wicked. The coarse food which they can possess themselves of is called by the poet "their fodder"; it is scarcely...
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, 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...
This passage is very sad. These people struggle to find food (verse 5). They get cold and wet (verse 6). They have nowhere to live. Job said that they are like wild donkeys (animals). God answered Jo...
THEY REAP EVERY ONE HIS CORN. — Or, probably, _the corn,_ that is, _of the wicked tyrant._ While they reap his corn and cut his provender, they have to go without themselves....
בַּ֭ † שָּׂדֶה בְּלִילֹ֣ו _יִקְצֹ֑ורוּ_† וְ כֶ֖רֶם...
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 reap [every one] (f) his corn in the field: and they gather the (g) vintage of the wicked. (f) Meaning the poor man's. (g) Signifying that one wicked man will not spoil another, but for necessi...
_Not, is omitted by the Protestants. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "they reap in the field food for the cattle." (Calmet) --- His. Hebrew, "the wicked man's vineyard." (Haydock) --- They do not examine whethe...
(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...
_SUCCESSFUL SIN_ ‘The vintage of the wicked.’ Job 24:6 I. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT SIN WE ARE ALMOST ALWAYS MOST IMPRESSED WITH ITS DISASTROUSNESS WHEN IT IS A FAILURE.—When it brought infamy, disease,...
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 REAP [EVERYONE] HIS CORN IN THE FIELD,.... Not the poor, who are obliged to reap the corn of the wicked for them without any wages, as some; but rather the wicked reap the corn of the poor; they...
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. Ver. 6. _They reap every one his corn in the field_] The poor oppressed are made by them to harvest their crops...
_They reap every one his corn in the field_ The words, _every one_, are not in the original, and ought not to have been inserted here, as they alter the sense. The clause would be better translated wi...
THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
They reap every one his corn in the field, they are always lucky in getting enough fodder for their cattle; AND THEY GATHER THE VINTAGE OF THE WICKED, gleaning the late-ripe fruit, boldly stealing it...
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...
CORN: _ Heb._ mingled corn, or dredge THEY GATHER THE VINTAGE OF THE WICKED: _ Heb._ the wicked gather the vintage...
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; either, 1. The poor, who are forced to gather in the corn and grapes of their wicked oppressors; or rather, 2. The oppressors, of whom he speaks JOB 4:4,5,7. HIS CORN, i.e. the corn of the wick...
Job 24:6 gather H7114 (H8799) (H8675) H7114 (H8686) fodder H1098 field H7704 glean H3953 (H
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...
Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:51; Judges 6:3; Micah 6:15...
They — The oppressors. Wicked — Of such as themselves: so they promiscuously robbed all, even their brethren in iniquity....