Job 24:2-12

2 Toman los términos, roban los ganados, y pacen los campos ajenos .

3 Se llevan el asno de los huérfanos; prenden el buey de la viuda.

4 Hacen apartar del camino a los pobres; y todos los pobres de la tierra se esconden de ellos .

5 He aquí, como asnos monteses en el desierto, salen a su obra madrugando para robar; el desierto es su mantenimiento y de sus hijos.

6 En el campo siegan su pasto, y los impíos vendimian la viña ajena .

7 Al desnudo hacen dormir sin ropa, y que en el frío no tenga cobertura.

8 De la inundación de los montes fueron humedecidos, y abrazan las peñas sin tener en qué cubrirse.

9 Quitan el pecho a los huérfanos, y de sobre el pobre toman la prenda.

10 Al desnudo hacen andar sin vestido, y a los hambrientos quitan las gavillas.

11 De dentro de sus paredes exprimen el aceite, pisan los lagares, y mueren de sed.

12 De la ciudad claman los hombres, y las almas muertas dan voces, pero Dios no puso estorbo.

Job 24:2-12 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.