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

They are exalted for a little while They live in honour and prosperity, but not for ever; it is only, at the most, during this short and mortal life, which lasts but for a very little time; and, therefore, their present happiness is not to be envied; nor is it any reproach to God's providence, which has time enough to reckon with them hereafter; but are gone Hebrew, איננו, einennu, are not; namely, in this world, they die. And are brought low As low as their graves. They are taken out of the way Out of this world; as all other They can no more prevent, or delay their death, than the meanest men in the world: and cut off By the sickle of death, perhaps by the hand of violence; as the tops of the ears of corn When in its greatest height and maturity; when they are arrived at their perfect stature of worldly power and glory, then God cuts them off, and that suddenly and unexpectedly.