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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Job 24:5

Others. Hebrew, "Behold as," (Haydock) which may be explained of these oppressors, or rather of the poor, who are forced to flee before them to seek for food. (Calmet) --- The Vulgate and Septuagint seem more favourable to the former supposition. (Haydock)

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, AS WILD ASSES IN THE DESERT - In regard to the wild ass, see the notes at Job 6:5. Schultens, Good, Noyes, and Wemyss, understand this, not as referring to the haughty tyrants themselves, but...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The comparison to wild asses expresses their herding together, their flight far from the dwellings of men, and that they find their home and sustenance in the wilderness. _go forth to their work; ris...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, AS WILD ASSES, &C.— _See, like the wild asses in the desart, they go forth to their labour: they are up with the dawn for bare food: the common must find them meat for the children._ This, and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    24:5 [their] (c-25) Lit. '[and] to the.'...

  • 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

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, [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. Ver. 5. _Behold, as wild asses in th...

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

    _Behold, as wild asses_ Which are lawless and fierce, and greedy of prey; _in the desert_ Which is the proper habitation of wild asses, Jeremiah 2:24: _they go forth to their work_ These oppressors go...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, as wild asses in the desert, in untamed fierceness and absolute disregard of other people's rights, GO THEY FORTH TO THEIR WORK; RISING BETIMES FOR A PREY, eager for plunder; THE WILDERNESS YI...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AS WILD ASSES; which are wild, and lawless, and unteachable, and fierce, and greedy of prey, or food, which they snatch out of the goods or labours of the husbandman; in all which they are fit emblems...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 24:5 donkeys H6501 desert H4057 out H3318 (H8804) work H6467 searching H7836 (H8764) food H2964 w

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • 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

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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