Job 24:1-10

1 ab Omnipotente non sunt abscondita tempora qui autem noverunt eum ignorant dies illius

2 alii terminos transtulerunt diripuerunt greges et paverunt eos

3 asinum pupillorum abigerunt et abstulerunt pro pignore bovem viduae

4 subverterunt pauperum viam et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terrae

5 alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum vigilantesque ad praedam praeparant panem liberis

6 agrum non suum demetunt et vineam eius quem vi oppresserunt vindemiant

7 nudos dimittunt homines indumenta tollentes quibus non est operimentum in frigore

8 quos imbres montium rigant et non habentes velamen amplexantur lapides

9 vim fecerunt depraedantes pupillos et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt

10 nudis et incedentibus absque vestitu et esurientibus tulerunt spicas

Job 24:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 24

This chapter contains the second part of Job's answer to the last discourse of Eliphaz, in which he shows that wicked men, those of the worst characters, prosper in the world, and go through it with impunity; he lays down this as a certain truth, that though no time is hid from God, yet they that are most familiar with him, and know most of him, do not see, and cannot observe, any days of his for judging and punishing wicked men in, this life, Job 24:1; and instances in men guilty of injustice, violence, oppression, cruelty, and inhumanity, to their neighbours, and yet God lays not folly to them, or charges them with sin, and punishes them for it, Job 24:2-12; and in persons that commit the most atrocious crimes in secret, such as murderers, adulterers, and thieves, Job 24:13-17; he allows that there is a curse upon their portion, and that the grave shall consume them, and they shall be remembered no more, Job 24:18-20; and because of their ill treatment of others, though they may be in safety and prosperity, and be exalted for a while, they shall be brought low and cut off by death, but generally speaking are not punished in this life, Job 24:21-24; and concludes with the greatest assurance of being in the right, and having truth on his side, Job 24:25.