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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:12

Layeth not folly to them] render, 'regardeth not the wrong.'

13-17. Criminals who work at night. They hate (rebel against) the light of day, preferring darkness for their crimes.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 24:12. _MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY_] This is a new paragraph. After having shown the oppressions carried on in the _country_, he takes a view of those carried on in the _town_. Here the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY - The evident meaning of this is, that the sorrows caused by oppression were not confined to the deserts and to solitary places; were not seen only where the wandering f...

  • 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

    MEN. Hebrew. _methim_. App-14. CITY. The Septuagint adds "and houses". GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Men groan from out of the city_ Rather, according to the pointing, _from out of the populous city they groan_. In this, however, there is no parallelism to the "soul of the wounded" in next clause. B...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These verses describe the miseries of another class, those who have allowed themselves to be subjected, and become serfs and bondmen attached to the estates of the rich. Probably they are but a portio...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY— Now follow the oppressions of the city, where the face of things is still worse; nothing to be heard but the groans of the dying, and the cries of the wounded. _In the...

  • 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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY. — Here a survey of the oppressions wrought within the city walls is taken. YET GOD LAYETH NOT FOLLY TO THEM. — That is, to those who are the cause of their wrongs, the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מֵ֘ עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים ׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְ נֶֽפֶשׁ ־חֲ

  • 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

    Men (m) groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God (n) layeth not folly [to them]. (m) For the great oppression and extortion. (n) Cry out and call for vengeance....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Suffer. Hebrew, "and God suffers no disorder," according to you. (Calmet) --- Symmachus, "God inspireth not folly: but they have," &c., ver. 13. Septuagint, "But why does he not regard," (Haydock) or...

  • 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

    MEN GROAN FROM OUT OF THE CITY,.... Because of the oppressions and injuries done to them, so that not only the poor in the country that were employed in the fields, and oliveyards, and vineyards, were...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them]. Ver. 12. _Men groan from out of the city_] viz. Under the pressures of their oppressors. Th...

  • 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

    Men groan from out of the city, strong men moan with the torture to which they are put, which threatens their very lives, AND THE SOUL OF THE WOUNDED CRIETH OUT, as the wicked attack them with weapons...

  • 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

    MEN GROAN under the burden of injuries and grievous oppressions. FROM OUT OF THE CITY; not only in deserts or less inhabited places, where these tyrants have the greater opportunity and advantage to p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 24:12 dying H4962 groan H5008 (H8799) city H5892 souls H5315 wounded H2491 out H7768 (H8762) God...

  • 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

    _Men groan from out of the city._ THE GROANS OF THE CITY The truth is, man as he walketh upon the surface of the earth, seeth but the surface of its inhabitants. Well is it that we see no more. Were...

  • 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

    2 Peter 3:15; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ecclesiastes 8:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Groan — Under grievous oppressions. Soul — The life or blood of those who are wounded to death, as this word properly signifies, crieth aloud to God for vengeance. Yet — Yet God doth not punish them....

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