Job 24:1-6

1 ¿Por qué no se reserva los tiempos el Todopoderoso, y por qué no ven sus días los que le conocen?

2 Algunos quitan los linderos, roban y devoran los rebaños.

3 Se llevan los asnos de los huérfanos, toman en prenda el buey de la viuda.

4 Apartan del camino a los necesitados, hacen que se escondan enteramente los pobres de la tierra.

5 He aquí, como asnos monteses en el desierto, salen con afán en busca de alimento y de pan para sus hijos en el yermo.

6 Cosechan su forraje en el campo, y vendimian la viña del impío.

Job 24:1-6 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.