Job 24:18

Deuteronomy 28:16-20; Isaiah 23:10; Malachi 2:2; Proverbs 3:33; Psalms 58:7; Psalms 69:22; Psalms 73:18-20

Related Commentaries of Job 24:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He is swift as the waters - Noyes renders this, “They are as swift as the skiff upon the waters.” Dr. Good, “Miserable is this man upon the water...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

He [is] swift as the (r) waters; their (s) portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. (r) He flees to the waters for...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

he. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "and he". beholdeth . returneth. the . to the.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. He is swift as the waters - Literally,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He is swift as the waters— He curseth the coming day: his portion shall be cursed upon earth: he shall not enjoy the treading of his vineyards. H...
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 opi...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He is swift. — That is — each of these rebels against the light is swift to make his escape over the face of the waters. So we ought to read it,...
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

(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 woun...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He [is] swift as the waters ,.... Or "upon the face of the waters" y; which some interpret of another set and sort of wicked men, guilty of like cri...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. Ver. 18. He is swift as the waters ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He is swift as the waters That is, the wicked man quickly passeth away, with all his glory, as the waters, which never stay in one place, but are a...
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

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

In these words he describes either, 1. The wicked man's disposition and deportment, that such persons are light and frothy in their spirits, or...
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

He is swift as the waters, he is swept away irresistibly, as by a flood; their portion is cursed in the earth, whatever they have called their own;...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Swift — That is, he quickly passeth away with all his glory, as the waters which never stay in one place, but are always hasting away. Portion — Hi...

¹⁸ He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

Related Commentaries of Job 24:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 24:18