Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 24:6 - 24:6

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 24:6 - 24:6


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They; either,



1. The poor, who are forced to gather in the corn and grapes of their wicked oppressors; or rather,



2. The oppressors, of whom he speaks Job_4:4,5,7.



His corn, i.e. the corn of the wicked, as it is in the next clause. Or, that which



is not their own; as the LXX., and Chaldee, and Vulgar Latin translate it, reading the Hebrew as two distinct words: they reap other men’s labours.



In the field, i.e. in the field of the right owner, from whom they take it. He notes their great power and boldness, that they did not come suddenly, and carry away their corn when it was laid up in the barns, or in heaps; but they proceeded leisurely, and staid to reap the corn, and by degrees carried it away, as it were in triumph, not fearing any interruption or hinderance either from God or man.



The vintage of the wicked; of such as themselves: so they promiscuously robbed all, even their own brethren in iniquity; whereby also he may intimate the righteous judgment of God in punishing one wicked man by another, and in depriving men of those goods which they had wickedly gotten. Or, the wicked (the singular number being used collectively for the plural, as is frequent; the oppressors)



gather the vintage, to wit, belonging to other men.