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Verse Job 24:4. _THEY TURN THE NEEDY OUT OF THE WAY_] They will not
permit them to go by the accustomed paths; they oblige them to take
circuitous routes. When the Marquis of H. was made ranger of Ri...
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THEY TURN THE NEEDY OUT OF THE WAY - They crowd the poor out of the
path, and thus oppress and injure them. They do not allow them the
advantages of the highway.
THE POOR OF THE EARTH HIDE THEMSELVES...
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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 ...
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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...
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THEY: [WHILE OTHERS]. See translation below.
POOR. wretched....
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Job now proceeds to illustrate his complaint of the absence of
righteousness in God's rule of the world. The instances are in the
first place general....
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"Turning the needy out of the way" is a general expression for doing
them wrong, hindering them of their just rights; comp. Amos 5:12. The
last clause "the poor hide themselves together" seems to sum...
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THEY TURN THE NEEDY OUT OF THE WAY— _They pervert justice in the
cause of the poor; the meek of the land hide themselves with one
consent._ See Amos 2:7; Amos 5:12. Heath....
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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Some evil people steal things. But other evil people are just cruel.
The widow in verse 3 owed money. The lender thought that it was right
for him to take her cow. But that lender was cruel and evil....
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יַטּ֣וּ אֶבְיֹונִ֣ים מִ דָּ֑רֶךְ
יַ֥חַד חֻ֝בְּא֗וּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
themselves (c) together.
(c) And for cruelty and oppression dare not show their faces....
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_Poor, by oppression, not allowing them to get their bread, or to walk
on the same road. (Calmet) --- And have. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the
meek....have hidden themselves together."_...
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(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...
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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...
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THEY TURN THE NEEDY OUT OF THE WAY,.... Either, in a moral sense, out
of the right way, the way of righteousness and truth, by their bad
examples, or by their threatenings or flatteries; or, in a civi...
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
themselves together.
Ver. 4. _They turn the needy out of the way_] Either to make room for
themselves, as the only men. Stand back, say...
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_They drive away the ass of the fatherless_ Whose helpless condition
required their pity and mercy. He says, _the ass_, to aggravate their
sin, in that they robbed him who had but one ass. _They take...
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They turn the needy out of the way, disdainfully thrusting them out of
the way into roadless regions; THE POOR OF THE EARTH HIDE THEMSELVES
TOGETHER, being obliged to hide before the insolence of thei...
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THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
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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...
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They even pushed the needy off the road so they could not beg, as.
result "they had to hide to escape more oppression, hunt for food in
the desert like wild donkeys, sleep with no protective clothing...
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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...
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OUT OF THE WAY; either,
1. Out of the way of piety and justice. They engage them to take evil
courses by their examples, or promises, or threatenings. Or,
2. Out of their right. Or,
3. Out of their...
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Job 24:4 push H5186 (H8686) needy H34 road H1870 poor H6041 (H8675)
H6035 land H776 hide H2244
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and
for Job would be more apparent.
⇐ ⇔...
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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
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 2:7; Amos 8:4; Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 18:18; Ezekiel 22:29;...