Job 24:6
The poor people harvest left-over grain in other people’s fields, and gather grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
In Context
5The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert like wild donkeys do.
7During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies, nothing to keep them warm.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:51They will kill and eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will ◄starve/die because you do not have anything to eat►. They will not leave for you any grain or wine or olive oil or cattle or sheep; and you will all die from hunger.
Micah 6:15You will plant seeds, but you will not harvest anything. You will press olives, but others, not you, will use the olive oil. You will trample on grapes and make wine from the juice, but others, not you, will 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 →