Job 24:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. ”

Job 24:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Men groan from out of the city - The evident meaning of this is, that the sorrows caused by oppression were not confined to the deserts and to solitary places; were not seen only where the wander...
Job 24:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Men (m) groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God (n) layeth not folly [to them]. (m) For the great oppression and extortion. (n) Cry out and call for vengeance.
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Men. Hebrew. methim . App-14. city. The Septuagint adds "and houses". GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.
Job 24:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them . Men groan from out of the city - This is a new paragraph. After having shown the oppression...
Job 24:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Men groan from out of the city— Now follow the oppressions of the city, where the face of things is still worse; nothing to be heard but the groans of the dying, and the cries of the wounded. In t...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Men groan from out of the city. — Here a survey of the oppressions wrought within the city walls is taken. Yet God layeth not folly to them. — That is, to those who are the cause of their wrongs...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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....
Job 24:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Men groan from out of the city ,.... Because of the oppressions and injuries done to them, so that not only the poor in the country that were employed in the fields, and oliveyards, and vineyards, w...
Job 24:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them]. Ver. 12. Men groan from out of the city ] viz. Under the pressures of their oppressors....
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from th...
Job 24:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Men groan under the burden of injuries and grievous oppressions. From out of the city; not only in deserts or less inhabited places, where these tyrants have the greater opportunity and advantage...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - 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...
Job 24:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked
Job 24:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:15 ; Ecclesiastes 4:1 ; Ecclesiastes 8:11 ; Ecclesiastes 8:12 ; Exodus 1:13 ; Exodus 1:14 ; Exodus 2:23 ; Exodus 2:24 ; Exodus 22:27 ; Isaiah 52:5 ; Judges 10:16 ; Malachi 2:17...
Job 24:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Groan — Under grievous oppressions. Soul — The life or blood of those who are wounded to death, as this word properly signifies, crieth aloud to God for vengeance. Yet — Yet God doth not punish the...

Job 24:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 24:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 24:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 24:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 24:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 24:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 24:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 24:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 24:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 24:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 24:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 24:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 24:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 24:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 24:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 24:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 24:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 24:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 24:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 24:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 24:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 24:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes