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Verse Job 24:19. _DROUGHT AND HEAT CONSUME THE SNOW-WATERS_] The
public cisterns or large tanks which had been filled with water by the
melting of the snow on the mountains, and which water was stored...
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DROUGHT AND HEAT CONSUME THE SNOW-WATERS - Margin, “violently
take;” see the notes at Job 6:17. The word rendered “consume,”
and in the margin “violently take” (יגזלו
_yı̂gâz__e__lû_), means properl...
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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 (Job...
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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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THE GRAVE. Hebrew Sheol. App-35.
SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'_. App-44....
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The popular creed regarding the fate of the wicked in God's government
of the world....
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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 IS SWIFT AS THE WATERS; THEIR PORTION IS CURSED IN THE EARTH: HE
BEHOLDETH NOT THE WAY OF THE VINEYARDS._
In these verses Job quotes the opinion of his adversaries, ironically:
he quoted them so...
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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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SO DOTH THE GRAVE THOSE WHICH HAVE SINNED. — Job had already spoken
of the sudden death of the wicked as a blessing (Job 9:23; Job 21:13),
as compared with the lingering torture he himself was called...
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צִיָּ֤ה גַם ־חֹ֗ם יִגְזְל֥וּ מֵֽימֵי
־שֶׁ֗לֶג שְׁאֹ֣ול חָטָֽאוּ׃...
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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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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those
which] (t) have sinned.
(t) As the dry ground is never full with waters, so will they never
cease sinning till they come to the gr...
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Let. Hebrew, "Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the
grave those which have sinned." (Protestants) (Challoner) (Haydock)
--- The wicked die quickly, and without a lingering illness.
(Pi...
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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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DROUGHT AND HEAT CONSUME THE SNOW WATERS,.... Melt the snow into
water, and dry up that, which is done easily, quickly, and suddenly:
[SO DOTH] THE GRAVE [THOSE WHICH] HAVE SINNED; all have sinned, b...
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those
which] have sinned.
Ver. 19. _Drought and heat consume the snow waters_] Here also
brevity hath bred obscurity. Snow waters, as th...
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_Drought and heat consume the snow-waters_ As the snow, though it doth
for a time lie upon the ground, yet at last is dissolved into water by
the heat of the season, and that water is quickly swallowe...
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Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea...
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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) d...
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CONSUME:
_ Heb._ violently take it...
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They would perish in Sheol, the afterlife, just like snow melts
during. drought....
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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 me...
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As the snow, though it doth for a time lie upon the ground, yet at
last is dissolved into water by the heat of the season, and that water
quickly swallowed up by the earth when it is dry and thirsty;...
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Job 24:19 drought H6723 heat H2527 consume H1497 (H8799) snow H7950
waters H4325 grave H7585 sinned H2398 (H8804)
Drought - Job 6:15-17
consume - Heb. violently take
so doth - Job 21:23, Job 21:32-3...
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GRAVE
Hebrew, "Sheol,"
(_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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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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_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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Ecclesiastes 9:4; Job 21:23; Job 21:32; Job 6:15; Luke 12:20; Luke
16:22; Proverbs 14:32; Psalms 49:14; Psalms 58:8; Psalms 58:9;...