Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 24
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Job24:2-25
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24).
Some--the wicked.
landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
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Job24:1
CHAPTER 24
Job 24:1-25.
1. Why is it that, seeing that the times of punishment (Eze 30:3; "time" in the same sense) are not hidden from the Almighty, they who know Him (His true worshippers, Job 18:21) do not see His days (of vengeance; Joe 1:15; 2Pe 3:10)? Or, with Umbreit less simply, making the parallel clauses more nicely balanced, Why are not times of punishment hoarded up ("laid up"; Job 21:19; appointed) by the Almighty? that is, Why are they not so appointed as that man may now see them? as the second clause shows. Job does not doubt that they are appointed: nay, he asserts it (Job 21:30); what he wishes is that God would let all now see that it is so.
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