Job 24:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. ”

• Job 24:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The womb shall forget him - His mother who bare him shall forget him. The idea here seems to be, that he shall fade out of the memory, just as other persons do. He shall not be overtaken with any...

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• Job 24:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (u) The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. (u) Though God tolerates the wicked for a time, yet their...

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• Job 24:20 - 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 24:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wickedness. Hebrew. 'aval . App-44. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for the wicked man.

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• Job 24:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. The womb shall forget him - The mother that bare him shall hav...

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• Job 24:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. In these verses Job quotes the opinion of his adversaries, ironically: he quoted the...

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• Job 24:20 - 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 24:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The womb shall forget him. — Some understand this verse as expressing what ought rather to be the doom of the wicked. “His own mother should forget him; the worm should feed sweetly on him; he...

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• Job 24:20 - 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 24:20 - 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 24:20 - 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 24:20 - 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 24:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The womb shall forget him ,.... His mother that bore him; or his wife, by whom he had many children; or his friend, as Gersom, who had a tender and affectionate respect for him; these all, and each...

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• Job 24:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. Ver. 20. The womb shall forget him ] Some read it, The merc...

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• Job 24:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The womb shall forget him His mother that bare him, and much more the rest of his friends, shall seldom or never mention or remember him, but shall rather be ashamed to own their relation to one th...

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• Job 24:20 - 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 24:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ultimate Ruin of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       18 He is swift as the waters; their portion...

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• Job 24:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  His mother that bare him in her womb, and much more the rest of his friends, shall seldom or never remember or mention him, to wit, with honour and comfort, but shall rather be afraid and ashamed to...

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• Job 24:20 - 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 24:20 - 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 24:20 - 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 24:20 - 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 24:20 - 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 24:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea

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• Job 24:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:14 ; Ecclesiastes 8:10 ; Isaiah 26:14 ; Job 14:7-10 ; Job 17:14 ; Job 18:16 ; Job 18:17 ; Job 19:26 ; Matthew 3:10 ; Proverbs 10:7

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• Job 24:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Womb — His mother that bare him in her womb. Wickedness — The wicked man. Broken — Broken to pieces, or violently broken down, as the word signifies. Tree — Which being once broken down never grows...

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