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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 24:18 - 24:18
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In these verses Job quotes the opinions of his adversaries ironically; he quoted them so before (Job 21:7-21). In Job 24:22-24, he states his own observation as the opposite. You say, “The sinner is swift, that is, swiftly passes away (as a thing floating) on the surface of the waters” (Ecc 11:1; Hos 10:7).
is cursed - by those who witness their “swift” destruction.
beholdeth not - “turneth not to”; figuratively, for He cannot enjoy his pleasant possessions (Job 20:17; Job 15:33).
the way of the vineyards - including his fields, fertile as vineyards; opposite to “the way of the desert.”