Job 24:6

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

Micah 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

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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