Job 24
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1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
CHAPTER 24
Job 24:1-25.
1. Why is it that, seeing that the times of punishment (Eze 30:3; "time" in the same sense) are not hidden from the Almighty, they who know Him (His true worshippers, Job 18:21) do not see His days (of vengeance; Joe 1:15; 2Pe 3:10)? Or, with Umbreit less simply, making the parallel clauses more nicely balanced, Why are not times of punishment hoarded up ("laid up"; Job 21:19; appointed) by the Almighty? that is, Why are they not so appointed as that man may now see them? as the second clause shows. Job does not doubt that they are appointed: nay, he asserts it (Job 21:30); what he wishes is that God would let all now see that it is so.
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
24They 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.
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).