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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Job 24:23

God. Septuagint, "being sick, let him not expect to be healed, but he shall fall under sickness." Hebrew, "Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth, yet his eyes are upon their ways," (Protestants) or "he has given (Haydock) himself, or appointed them (guards) for his defence, and rests on them; yet his eyes," &c. He suspects the fidelity of his servants. (Calmet) --- Pride. Man abuseth by his free-will the time which God had allowed him to repent from former sins, Romans ii. (Worthington)

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See also Job 24:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 24:23. THOUGH _IT BE GIVEN HIM_ TO BE _IN SAFETY_] The _Vulgate_ gives this verse a singular turn: _Dedit ei Deus locum_ _paenitentiae, et ille abutitur eo in superbiam_, "God gave him spac...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOUGH IT BE GIVEN HIM TO BE IN SAFETY - That is, God gives him safety. The name God is often understood, or not expressed. The meaning is, that God gives this wicked man, or oppressor, safety. He is...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _though it be given_ Rather, HE GIVETH THEM TO BE IN SAFETY. God makes the tents of the violent men to be secure, ch. Job 12:6; He watches over them, His eyes being upon their ways; comp. ch. Job 10:3...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOUGH IT BE GIVEN. — “Yea, he, that is each of them, giveth him tribute, &c., that he may be secure and stable.” YET HIS EYES — that is, the great tyrant’s eyes — ARE UPON THEIR WAYS. — They are exal...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יִתֶּן ־לֹ֣ו לָ֭ בֶטַח וְ יִשָּׁעֵ֑ן וְ֝

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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. ...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [THOUGH] IT BE GIVEN HIM [TO BE] IN SAFETY,.... Or "he gives him" g, that is, it is God gives the wicked man to be in safety, notwithstanding all his wickedness; for Job, having described the wicked m...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Job 24:23 [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways. Ver. 23. _Though it be given him to be in safety_] Heb. It is given him to be in safety,...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Job 24:23. The words more literally translated are, "Though it be given him to be in safety, and he depends upon it, yet his eyes are upon their ways" - _i.e., _ though God gives those wicked men that...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Though it be given him_ Namely, of God; _to be in safety_ That is, Though God granteth to the oppressor to be for a time in apparent safety, and to live a comfortable life; _whereon he resteth_ His f...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Though it be given him to be in safety whereon he resteth, that is, God grants him a quiet existence so that he is sustained in life, YET HIS EYES ARE UPON THEIR WAYS, God watches over the paths of th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    God may allow sinners to become settled, but He is aware of their feelings of false security....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Heb. _He giveth to him to be in safety_, or all things necessary for his safety, &c. This verse is understood either, 1. Of the oppressor; if the oppressor give a man his hand or promise that he shall...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 24:23 gives H5414 (H8799) security H983 rely H8172 (H8735) eyes H5869 ways H1870 it be given -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Yet His eyes are upon thy ways._ GOD OBSERVES THE WAYS OF THE WICKED To call them to account for them. We have here a threefold act of providence about wicked oppressors, whom yet God suffereth to...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and for Job would be more apparent. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 5:3; Amos 8:7; Amos 9:2; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Eccle

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Yet — Yet his eyes are upon their ways: although God gives them such strange successes, yet he sees and observes them all, and will in due time punish them....

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