Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, (h) and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
(h) The poor are driven by the wicked into the rock and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, (h) and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
(h) The poor are driven by the wicked into the rock and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain.
Verse Job 24:8. _THEY ARE WET WITH THE SHOWERS OF THE MOUNTAINS_] Mr. _Good_ thinks that _torrents_, not _showers_, is the proper translation of the original זרם _zerem_; but I think _showers of the_...
THEY ARE WET WITH THE SHOWERS OF THE MOUNTAINS - That is, the poor persons, or the travelers whom they have robbed. Hills collect the clouds, and showers seem to pour down from the mountains. These sh...
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...
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 mountain rains, more violent than even those in the plain, drench these thinly-clad outcasts; and they "embrace the rock," i. e. huddle in closely under its ledge....
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'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....
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...
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...
מִ זֶּ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים יִרְטָ֑בוּ וּֽ מִ בְּלִ֥י
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...
_Stones, for their bed, though they be so wet. (Haydock)_...
(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 ARE WET WITH THE SHOWERS OF THE MOUNTAINS,.... They that are without any clothes to cover them, lying down at the bottom of a hill or mountain, where the clouds often gather, and there break, or...
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. Ver. 8. _They are wet with the showers of the mountains_] Wet they are, but not at all refreshed, as this w...
_They are wet_ That is, the poor, being stripped of their raiment, and forced away from their houses; _with the showers of the mountains_ With the rain-water, which, in great showers, runs down from t...
THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, where the poor try to find refuge, AND EMBRACE THE ROCK FOR WANT OF A SHELTER, clinging closely to it, crouching beneath it in the vain attempt to find...
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...
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, i.e. the poor, being stripped of their raiment, and forced away from their houses. WITH THE SHOWERS OF THE MOUNTAINS; with the rain water, which in great showers run down from the rocks or mount...
Job 24:8 wet H7372 (H8799) showers H2230 mountains H2022 huddle H2263 (H8765) rock H6697 shelter H4268 wet -
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...
Hebrews 11:38; Lamentations 4:5; Song of Solomon 5:2...
Wet — With the rain — water, which runs down the rocks or mountains into the caves, to which they fled for shelter. Rock — Are glad when they can find a cleft of a rock in which they may have some pro...