Job 24:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. ”

Job 24:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Though it be given him to be in safety - That is, God gives him safety. The name God is often understood, or not expressed. The meaning is, that God gives this wicked man, or oppressor, safety. H...
Job 24:23 - 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 24:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. Though it be given him to be in safety - The Vulgate gives this verse a singular turn: Dedit ei Deu...
Job 24:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. Reply of Job to the opinions of the friends. Experience proves the contrary. Translate, 'But He (God) prolo...
Job 24:23 - 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 24:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Though it be given. — “Yea, he, that is each of them, giveth him tribute, &c., that he may be secure and stable.” Yet his eyes — that is, the great tyrant’s eyes — are upon their ways. — T...
Job 24:23 - 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 24:23 - 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 24:23 - 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 24:23 - 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 24:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety ,.... Or "he gives him" g, that is, it is God gives the wicked man to be in safety, notwithstanding all his wickedness; for Job, having described the wicke...
Job 24:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 24:23 [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways. Ver. 23. Though it be given him to be in safety ] Heb. It is given him to be in safe...
Job 24:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though it be given him Namely, of God; to be in safety That is, Though God granteth to the oppressor to be for a time in apparent safety, and to live a comfortable life; whereon he resteth His...
Job 24:23 - 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 24:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ultimate Ruin of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion...
Job 24:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Heb. He giveth to him to be in safety , or all things necessary for his safety, &c. This verse is understood either, 1. Of the oppressor; if the oppressor give a man his hand or promise that h...
Job 24:23 - 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 24:23 - 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 24:23 - 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 24:23 - 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 24:23 - 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 24:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea
Job 24:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; Amos 8:7 ; Amos 9:2 ; Ecclesiastes 5:8 ; Ecclesiastes 8:11 ; Habakkuk 1:13 ; Isaiah 10:8-11 ; Isaiah 56:12 ; Jeremiah 12:1-3 ; Luke 12:16-20 ; Luke 12:45 ; Proverbs...
Job 24:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Yet — Yet his eyes are upon their ways: although God gives them such strange successes, yet he sees and observes them all, and will in due time punish them.

Job 24:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 24:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 24:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 24:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 24:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 24:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 24:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 24:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 24:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 24:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 24:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 24:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 24:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 24:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 24:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 24:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 24:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 24:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 24:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes