Job 24:4

They: [while others]. See translation below.

poor. wretched.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They turn the needy out of the way - They crowd the poor out of the path, and thus oppress and injure them. They do not allow them the advantages...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves (c) together. (c) And for cruelty and oppression dare not show their faces...
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 considerab...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. They turn the needy out of the way - They will not permit them to...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They turn the needy out of the way— They pervert justice in the cause of the poor; the meek of the land hide themselves with one consent. See Am...
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 impun...
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 an...
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...
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 u...
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 p...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. (3) They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow'...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They turn the needy out of the way ,.... Either, in a moral sense, out of the right way, the way of righteousness and truth, by their bad examples,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. Ver. 4. They turn the needy out of the way ] Either to make ro...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They drive away the ass of the fatherless Whose helpless condition required their pity and mercy. He says, the ass , to aggravate their sin, in th...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Out of the way; either, 1. Out of the way of piety and justice. They engage them to take evil courses by their examples, or promises, or threaten...
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 suffe...
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 app...
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 ju...
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 prev...
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 ( J...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They turn the needy out of the way, disdainfully thrusting them out of the way into roadless regions; the poor of the earth hide themselves together...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 2:7 ; Amos 8:4-6 ; Ezekiel 18:12 ; Ezekiel 18:18 ; Ezekiel 22:29 ; Isaiah 10:2 ; James 5:4-6 ; Job 24:14 ; Job 31:16 ; Micah 2:1 ; Mi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Way — Out of the path or place in which these oppressors walk and range. They labour to keep out of their way for fear of their farther injuries. H...

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Related Commentaries of Job 24:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 24:4