Job 24:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. ”

• Job 24:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Which made oil within their walls - Or rather, they compel them to express oil within their walls. The word יצהירו yatshı̂yrû , rendered “made oil,” is from צחר tsachar , to shine, to give...

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• Job 24:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  [Which] make oil (l) within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. (l) In such places which are appointed for that purpose; meaning, that those who labour for the wicked, a...

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• Job 24:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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, con...

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• Job 24:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Make oil within their walls - Thus stripped of all that on which they depended for clothing and food, they are...

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• Job 24:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity. Some - the wicked. Landmarks - boundar...

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• Job 24:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 unpunishe...

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• Job 24:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again to...

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• Job 24:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  not Here, but Hereafter Job 24:1-25 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 t...

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• Job 24:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 stil...

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• Job 24:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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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• Job 24:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  [Which] make oil within their walls ,.... Not the poor within their own walls; as if the sense was, that they made their oil in a private manner within the walls of their houses, or in their cellars...

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• Job 24:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Job 24:11 [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. Ver. 11. Which make oil within their walls, &c. ] See Trapp on " Job 24:6 " See Trapp...

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• Job 24:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Which make oil within their walls The walls of the rich oppressors, for their use and benefit. And tread their wine-presses That is, the grapes in their wine-presses; and suffer thirst Because...

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• Job 24:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 24:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from th...

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• Job 24:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To wit, the poor man last mentioned. Within their walls; either, 1. Within their own walls, i.e. in private and secret places, for fear of the oppressors. Or rather, 2. Within the walls of the...

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• Job 24:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 s...

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• Job 24:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 24:2-4 . Some...

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• Job 24:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 h...

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• Job 24:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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. Amongs...

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• Job 24:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked, whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail ( Job 24:2-18 ). A single note of perplexity ( Job 24...

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• Job 24:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked

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• Job 24:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 25:4 ; James 5:4 ; Jeremiah 22:13

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• Job 24:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Walls — Within the walls of the oppressors for their use. Suffer — Because they are not permitted to quench their thirst out of the wine which they make.

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