Chapter 24
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
seeing
Psalms 31:15 Ecclesiastes 3:17 8:6,7 9:11,12 Isaiah 60:22 Daniel 2:21 Luke 21:22-24 Acts 1:7 17:26 1 Thessalonians 5:1 1 Timothy 4:1 6:15 2 Peter 2:3 3:7,8
they that know
not see
Genesis 7:4 18:17,20,21 Psalms 73:16-19 Jeremiah 12:1-3 Matthew 24:38 Romans 2:5
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
landmarks
Deuteronomy 19:14 27:17 Proverbs 22:28 23:10 Hosea 5:10
violently
feed thereof
or, feed them.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
drive
22:6-9 31:16,17 Deuteronomy 24:6,10-13,17-21 1 Samuel 12:3
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
turn
14 31:16 Psalms 109:16 Proverbs 22:16 30:14 Isaiah 10:2 Ezekiel 18:12,18 22:29 Amos 2:7 8:4-6 Micah 2:1,2
hide
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
wild asses
39:5-7 Jeremiah 2:24 Hosea 8:9
rising
14 Proverbs 4:16 Hosea 7:6 Micah 2:1 Zephaniah 3:3 John 18:28 Acts 23:12
the wilderness
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
They reap
Deuteronomy 28:33,51 Judges 6:3-6 Micah 6:15
corn
Heb. mingled corn, or, dredge. they gather, etc. Heb. the wicked gather the vintage.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
the naked
10 22:6 31:19,20 Exodus 22:26,27 Deuteronomy 24:11-13 Isaiah 58:7 Acts 9:31
no covering
Genesis 31:40 Proverbs 31:21 *marg:
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
wet
embrace
Lamentations 4:5 Hebrews 11:38
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
they take away
Deuteronomy 24:19 Amos 2:7,8 5:11,12
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Deuteronomy 25:4 Jeremiah 22:13 James 5:4
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
groan
Exodus 1:13,14 2:23,24 22:27 Judges 10:16 Psalms 12:5 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Isaiah 52:5
wounded
yet God
Psalms 50:21 Ecclesiastes 8:11,12 Malachi 2:17 3:15 Romans 2:4,5 2 Peter 3:15
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
rebel
Luke 12:47,48 John 3:19,20 9:39-41 15:22-24 Romans 1:32 2:17-24 James 4:17
they know
Proverbs 4:19 John 12:35,40 Romans 3:11-17 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
nor abide
23:11,12 John 8:31,44 15:6 2 Peter 2:20-22 1 John 2:19 Jude 1:6
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
murderer
2 Samuel 11:14-17 Psalms 10:8-10 Micah 2:1,2 Ephesians 5:7-11
in the night
Luke 12:39 1 Thessalonians 5:2 Revelation 3:3
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
eye
Exodus 20:14 2 Samuel 11:4-13 12:12 Psalms 50:18 Proverbs 6:32-35 7:9,10
No eye
22:13,14 Psalms 10:11 73:11 94:7 Ezekiel 8:12 9:9
disguiseth his face
Heb. setteth his face in secret. Or, "putteth a covering on his face;" probably the hood of the burnoose, or cloak, which the Arabs sometimes throw over their other garments.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
In the dark
Exodus 22:2,3 Ezekiel 12:5-7,12 Matthew 24:43
they know
13 38:12,13 John 3:20 Ephesians 5:11-13
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
in the terrors
3:5 Psalms 73:18,19 Jeremiah 2:26 2 Corinthians 5:10,11 Revelation 6:16,17
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
swift
Psalms 58:7 73:18-20 Isaiah 23:10
their portion
Deuteronomy 28:16-20 Psalms 69:22 Proverbs 3:33 Malachi 2:2
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
Drought
consume
Heb. violently take. so doth.
21:23,32-34 Psalms 49:14 58:8,9 68:2 Proverbs 14:32 Ecclesiastes 9:4-6 Luke 12:20 Luke 16:22
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
the worm
he shall be
Proverbs 10:7 Ecclesiastes 8:10 Isaiah 26:14
wickedness
14:7-10 18:16,17 Daniel 4:14 Matthew 3:10
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
evil
doeth not
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
draweth
Esther 3:8-10 Daniel 6:4-9 John 19:12-16 Revelation 16:13,14 17:2
no man is sure of life
or, he trusteth not his own life.
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
it be given
Psalms 73:3-12 Jeremiah 12:1-3
whereon
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Isaiah 10:8-11 56:12 Luke 12:16-20,45 1 Thessalonians 5:3
yet his eyes
Psalms 10:13,14 11:4,5 Proverbs 5:21 15:3 25:21-23 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Amos 8:7 9:2 Habakkuk 1:13 Revelation 2:23
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
are exalted
20:5 Psalms 37:10,35,36 73:19 92:7 James 1:11 5:1-3
gone
Heb. not.
8:22 *marg:
taken out
Heb. closed up. cut off.
Isaiah 17:5,6 Revelation 14:14-20
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?