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Commentaries on Job 24:5

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Job 24 This chapter contains the second part of Job's answer to the last discourse of Eliphaz, in which he shows that wicked men, those of the worst characters, prosper in the world, and go through it with impunity; he lays down this as a certain truth, that though no time is hid from God, yet they that are most familiar with him, and know most of him, do not see, and cannot...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert,.... The word "as" is a supplement, and may be omitted, and the words be interpreted literally of wild asses, as they are by Sephorno, whose proper place is in the wilderness, to which they are used, and where their food is provided for them, and which they diligently seek for, for them and their young; and so the words may be descriptive of the place where...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

Job having by his complaints in the foregoing chapter given vent to his passion, and thereby gained some ease, breaks them off abruptly, and now applies himself to a further discussion of the doctrinal controversy between him and his friends concerning the prosperity of wicked people. That many live at ease who yet are ungodly and profane, and despise all the exercises of devotion, he had shown,...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; — Like wild asses, their work consists in going forth to do mischief. Job_24:5. Rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. For there are some so hard that they would skin a flint, and out of the wilderness would manage to get food. Yet such hard oppressors of others sometimes seem to...