geneva - 24

geneva@Job:24:1 @ Why, seeing times (note:)Thus Job speaks in his passions, and after the judgment of the flesh: that is, that he does not see the things that are done at times, nor yet has a peculiar care over all, because he does not punish the wicked or avenge the godly.(:note) are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his When he punishes the wicked and rewards the good. days?

geneva@Job:24:2 @ Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

geneva@Job:24:3 @ They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

geneva@Job:24:4 @ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves (note:)And for cruelty and oppression dare not show their faces.(:note) together.

geneva@Job:24:5 @ Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; (note:)That is, spares diligence.(:note) rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness He and his live by robbing and murdering. [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

geneva@Job:24:6 @ They reap [every one] (note:)Meaning the poor man's.(:note) his corn in the field: and they gather the Signifying that one wicked man will not spoil another, but for necessity. vintage of the wicked.

geneva@Job:24:7 @ They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

geneva@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, (note:)The poor are driven by the wicked into the rock and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain.(:note) and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

geneva@Job:24:9 @ They pluck the fatherless (note:)That is, they so pillage and plunder the poor widow that she cannot sustain herself that she may be able to nurse her baby.(:note) from the breast, and take a pledge of The poor are driven by the wicked into the rocks and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain. the poor.

geneva@Job:24:10 @ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

geneva@Job:24:11 @ [Which] make oil (note:)In such places which are appointed for that purpose; meaning, that those who labour for the wicked, are pined for hunger.(:note) within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

geneva@Job:24:12 @ Men (note:)For the great oppression and extortion.(:note) groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God Cry out and call for vengeance. layeth not folly [to them].

geneva@Job:24:13 @ They are of those that rebel against the (note:)That is, God's word, because they are reproved by it.(:note) light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

geneva@Job:24:14 @ The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

geneva@Job:24:15 @ The eye also of the (note:)By these particular vices and the licence of it, he would prove that God did not punish the wicked and reward the just.(:note) adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

geneva@Job:24:16 @ They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

geneva@Job:24:17 @ But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

geneva@Job:24:18 @ He [is] swift as the (note:)He flees to the waters for his succour.(:note) waters; their They think that all the world is bent against them and dare not go by the highway. portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

geneva@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] (note:)As the dry ground is never full with waters, so will they never cease sinning till they come to the grave.(:note) have sinned.

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geneva@Job:24:21 @ He (note:)He shows why the wicked will not be lamented, because he did not pity others.(:note) evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

geneva@Job:24:22 @ He draweth also the (note:)He declares that after the wicked have destroyed the weakest, they will do the same to the stranger, and therefore are justly punished by God's judgments.(:note) mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.

geneva@Job:24:23 @ Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.

geneva@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.

geneva@Job:24:25 @ And if [it be] not (note:)That is, contrary to your reasoning no man can give perfect reasons for God's judgments, let me be reproved.(:note) [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Job 24