Job 24:6

They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: 1 The poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5And they have departed like asses in the field, 1 Having gone forth on my account according to their own order: 1 His bread is sweet to his little ones. 1

7They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, 1 And they have taken away the covering of their body. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:51And it shall eat up the young of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land, so as not to leave to thee corn, wine, oil, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep, until it shall have destroyed thee;

Micah 6:15Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt press the olive, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and shalt make wine, but ye shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.

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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