Job 24:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. ”

Job 24:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He evil entreateth the barren - The woman who has no children to comfort or support her. He increases her calamity by acts of cruelty and oppression. To be without children, as is well known, was...
Job 24:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

He (x) evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. (x) He shows why the wicked will not be lamented, because he did not pity others.
Job 24:21 - 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 24:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

He evil entreateth. See translation below.
Job 24:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. He evil entreateth the barren - I believe the original word ולה should be translated he feedeth, and so the Vulgate...
Job 24:21 - 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...
Job 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He evil entreateth the barren, [that] beareth not ,.... Here Job returns, to give some further account of the sins of some wicked men, who prosper in this world, and go through it with impunity; and...
Job 24:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. Ver. 21. He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not ] Who had more need to be comforted than further afflicte...
Job 24:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He evil-entreateth the barren Job here returns to the declaration of his further acts of wickedness, the causes of these judgments; that heareth not Barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach;...
Job 24:21 - 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 24:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ultimate Ruin of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion...
Job 24:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He; either, 1. God, who is oft understood, who having cut off his person, and brought him to his grave, continues his judgments upon his wife or widow, and family. Or rather, 2. The oppressor,...
Job 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea
Job 24:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 1:6 ; 1 Samuel 1:7 ; Job 24:3 ; Job 29:13 ; Job 31:16-18
Job 24:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He — He here returns to the declaration of his farther wickednesses, the cause of these judgments. Barren — Barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach; and so he added affliction to the afflicted...

Job 24:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 24:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 24:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 24:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 24:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 24:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 24:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 24:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 24:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 24:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 24:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 24:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 24:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 24:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 24:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 24:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 24:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 24:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 24:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 24:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes