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Job 24:11

A similar contrast between "tread the winepresses" and "suffer thirst." The expression "within their walls" refers to the walled, well-protected vineyards of the rich nobility, within which these miserable serfs tread out abundant wine all the while that they themselves pant with thirst.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 24:11. _MAKE OIL WITHIN THEIR WALLS_] Thus stripped of all that on which they depended for _clothing_ and _food_, they are obliged to become _vassals_ to their lord, labour in the fields on...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH MADE OIL WITHIN THEIR WALLS - Or rather, they compel them to express oil within their walls. The word יצהירו _yatshı̂yrû_, rendered “made oil,” is from צחר _tsachar_, to shine, to give light; a...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

    Many poor people suffer because of the evil actions of rich people. PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE EVERY GOOD THING V13 Some people oppose everything that is good. They do not know how they should behave. Or, th...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בֵּין ־שׁוּרֹתָ֥ם יַצְהִ֑ירוּ יְקָבִ֥ים דָּ֝רְכ֗וּ וַ...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Which] make oil (l) within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. (l) In such places which are appointed for that purpose; meaning, that those who labour for the wicked, ar...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Of them. Hebrew, "of corn, and thirst while pressing out their olives." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "they take away the sheaf from the hungry, (11) which make oil within their walls, and tread their win...

  • 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

    [WHICH] MAKE OIL WITHIN THEIR WALLS,.... Not the poor within their own walls; as if the sense was, that they made their oil in a private manner within the walls of their houses, or in their cellars, l...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Job 24:11 [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. Ver. 11. _Which make oil within their walls, &c._] _See Trapp on "_ Job 24:6 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Jo...

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

    _Which make oil within their walls_ The walls of the rich oppressors, for their use and benefit. _And tread their wine-presses_ That is, the grapes in their wine-presses; _and suffer thirst_ Because t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    which make oil within their walls, under strict supervision they are obliged to press out the oil from the olives, AND TREAD THEIR WINE-PRESSES, stamping out the grapes in the wine-vats, AND SUFFER TH...

  • 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

    To wit, the poor man last mentioned. WITHIN THEIR WALLS; either, 1. Within their own walls, i.e. in private and secret places, for fear of the oppressors. Or rather, 2. Within the walls of the rich o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 24:11 oil H6671 (H8686) within H996 walls H7791 tread H1869 (H8804) winepresses H3342 thirst H6770 ...

  • 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

    _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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 25:4; James 5:4; Jeremiah 22:13...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Walls — Within the walls of the oppressors for their use. Suffer — Because they are not permitted to quench their thirst out of the wine which they make....

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