Job 24:6

They are forced to find what they can in other people's fields, to glean among the vineyards of the wicked.

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

In Context

5Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor have to scavenge for their food, looking for anything to feed their children in the wasteland.

7They spend the night naked because they have no clothes; they have nothing to cover themselves against the cold.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:51They will eat your lambs and calves and the crops you've grown until you are destroyed. They won't leave you any grain or new wine or olive oil, no calves from your herds or lambs from your flocks, so you'll die of starvation.

Micah 6:15You will sow, but you won't reap; you will press your olives, but not use the oil; you will make your wine, but drink none of it.

Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13

Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 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's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →

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