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Job 24:6
6They find grain in the fields of other people. They pick grapes that remain in the vineyards of wicked people.
Job 24:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
- New International Version (NIV)They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They gather their fodder in the field And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
Context of Job 24:6
4They stop poor people from receiving justice. Poor people have to run away from them and hide. 5Poor people have to look for food to eat, like wild donkeys in the desert. They have to find food for their children to eat. They find grain in the fields of other people. They pick grapes that remain in the vineyards of wicked people. 7They have no clothes to wear during the cold nights. They sleep without anything to cover themselves. 8The rain that falls in the mountains makes them very wet. So they hide among the rocks where they try to keep dry.
Read all of Job 24Job 24:6 word by word
בַּ֭שָּׂדֶה בְּלִיל֣וֹ יִקְצ֑וֹרוּ וְכֶ֖רֶם רָשָׁ֣ע יְלַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 24:6
- Deuteronomy 28:33Strangers will eat the food that you have worked hard to grow in your fields. People will be cruel to you for the rest of your lives.
- Judges 6:3When they planted seeds to grow food, their enemies would attack them. The Midianites, Amalekites and people from the east would come to rob them.
- Micah 6:15You will plant seeds, but you will not bring in the harvest. You will crush olives, but you will not use the olive oil for yourselves. You will crush grapes, but you will not drink the wine from them.
Commentaries on Job 24:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6They reap every one his corn in the field - This is perfectly characteristic. These wandering hordes often make sudden irruptions, and carry off the harvest of grain, olives, vines, etc., and plunge with it into the wilderness, where none can follow them. The Chaldee gives the same sense: "They reap in a field that is not their own, and cut off the vineyard of the wicked."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6They reap every one his corn - Margin, “mingled corn,” or “dredge.” The word used here (בליל belı̂yl ) denotes, properly, “meslin,” mixed provender, made up of various kinds of grain, as of barley, vetches, etc., prepared for cattle; see the notes at Isaiah 30:24. In the field - They break in upon the fields of others, and rob them of their grain, instead of cultivating the earth themselves. So it is rendered by Jerome - Agrum non suum deme-runt; et…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6glean the vineyards of the wicked: Job described the desperate situation of poor people. If someone stole their fields like in the case of Naboth's vineyard, the poor person would harvest for the thieves instead of for themselves (24:2; see 1 Kings 21:1–29). They would only get the bits that remained. If the poor had to glean from fields of the wicked people, they would receive nothing (Leviticus 19:10; 23:22). But if they would try to gather from the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-242-24. 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).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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