2 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:5
They pluck the fatherless from the breast - That is, they steal away unprotected children, and sell them, or make slaves of them for their own us...
They pluck the fatherless (i) from the breast, and take a pledge of (k) the poor. (i) That is, they so pillage and plunder the poor widow that she c...
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...
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. They pluck the fatherless from the breast - They forcibly take young childr...
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impun...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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'...
They pluck the fatherless from the breast ,.... Either on purpose to starve it, which must be extremely barbarous; or to sell it to be brought up a...
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. Ver. 9. They pluck the fatherless from the breast ] What can be more to...
They The wicked oppressors; pluck the fatherless from the breast Either out of cruelty, not sparing poor infants, or out of covetousness, not all...
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...
Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. B. C. 1520....
They; the wicked oppressors, as is manifest from the following words. From the breast; either out of cruelty, not sparing poor infants, but killi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, snatching orphans from the arms of their mothers in order to bring them up as slaves, and take a pledge o...
They — The oppressors. Pluck — Out of covetousness; they will not allow the mother time for the suckling of her infant.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.