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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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....
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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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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...
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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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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,...
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(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. ...
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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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[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...
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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,...
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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...
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_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...
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Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...
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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...
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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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God may allow sinners to become settled, but He is aware of their
feelings of false security....
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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...
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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...
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Job 24:23 gives H5414 (H8799) security H983 rely H8172 (H8735) eyes
H5869 ways H1870
it be given -...
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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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_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...
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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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_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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1 Thessalonians 5:3; Amos 8:7; Amos 9:2; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Eccle
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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....