Job 24:20

Daniel 4:14; Ecclesiastes 8:10; Isaiah 26:14; Job 14:7-10; Job 17:14; Job 18:16; Job 18:17; Job 19:26; Matthew 3:10; Proverbs 10:7

Related Commentaries of Job 24:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The womb shall forget him - His mother who bare him shall forget him. The idea here seems to be, that he shall fade out of the memory, just as ot...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(u) The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. (u) Tho...
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

wickedness. Hebrew. 'aval . App-44. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for the wicked man.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. The womb sha...
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

The womb shall forget him. — Some understand this verse as expressing what ought rather to be the doom of the wicked. “His own mother should fo...
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

The womb shall forget him ,.... His mother that bore him; or his wife, by whom he had many children; or his friend, as Gersom, who had a tender and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. Ver. 20....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The womb shall forget him His mother that bare him, and much more the rest of his friends, shall seldom or never mention or remember him, but shall...
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

His mother that bare him in her womb, and much more the rest of his friends, shall seldom or never remember or mention him, to wit, with honour and c...
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

Other Cases seem to Support Job's Idea
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The womb, the mother who bore him, shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him, enjoying the pleasant meal which his dead body offers; he...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Womb — His mother that bare him in her womb. Wickedness — The wicked man. Broken — Broken to pieces, or violently broken down, as the word signifie...

²⁰ The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Related Commentaries of Job 24:20

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

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 24:20