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24:5 Like wild donkeys <06501> in the desert <04057> they go out <03318> to their labor <06467>, seeking diligently <07836> for food <02964>; the wasteland <06160> provides food <03899> for them and for their children <05288>. 24:6 They reap <07114> fodder <01098> in the field <07704>, and glean <03953> in the vineyard <03754> of the wicked <07563>. 24:7 They spend <03885> the night naked <06174> because they lack <01097> clothing <03830>; they have no <0369> covering <03682> against the cold <07135>. 24:8 They are soaked <07372> by mountain <02022> rains <02230> and huddle <02263> in the rocks <06697> because they lack <01097> shelter <04268>. 24:9 The fatherless child <03490> is snatched <01497> from the breast <07699>, the infant <05764> of the poor <06041> is taken as a pledge <02254>. 24:10 They go <01980> about naked <06174>, without <01097> clothing <03830>, and go hungry <07456> while they carry <05375> the sheaves <06016>. 24:11 They press out the olive oil <06671> between <0996> the rows <07791> of olive trees; they tread <01869> the winepresses <03342> while they are thirsty <06770>. 24:12 From the city <05892> the dying <04962> groan <05008>, and the wounded <02491> <05315> cry out for help <07768>, but God <0433> charges <07760> no <03808> one with wrongdoing <08604>. 24:13 There are <01961> those <01992> who rebel <04775> against the light <0216>; they do not <03808> know <05234> its ways <01870> and they do not <03808> stay <03427> on its paths <05410>. 24:14 Before daybreak <0216> the murderer <07523> rises <06965> up; he kills <06991> the poor <06041> and the needy <034>; in the night <03915> he is like a thief <01590>. 24:15 And the eye <05869> of the adulterer <05003> watches <08104> for the twilight <05399>, thinking <0559>, ‘No <03808> eye <05869> can see <07789> me,’ and covers <07760> his face <06440> with a mask <05643>. 24:16 In the dark <02822> the robber breaks into <02864> houses <01004>, but by day <03119> they shut <02856> themselves in; they do not <03808> know <03045> the light <0216>. 24:17 For <03588> all of them <03162>, the morning <01242> is to them like deep darkness <06757>; they are friends <05234> with the terrors <01091> of darkness <06757>. 24:18 “You say, ‘He is <01931> foam <07031> on <05921> the face <06440> of the waters <04325>; their portion <02513> of the land <0776> is cursed <07043> so that no <03808> one goes <01870> <06437> to their vineyard <03754>. 24:19 The drought <06723> as well as <01571> the heat <02527> carry away <01497> the melted <04325> snow <07950>; so the grave <07585> takes away those who have sinned <02398>. 24:20 The womb <07358> forgets <07911> him, the worm <07415> feasts <04988> on him, no <03808> longer <05750> will he be remembered <02142>. Like a tree <06086>, wickedness <05766> will be broken down <07665>. 24:21 He preys <07462> on the barren <06135> and childless <03205> <03808> woman, and does not <03808> treat <03190> the widow <0490> well <03190>. 24:22 But God drags off <04900> the mighty <047> by his power <03581>; when God rises up <06965> against him, he has no <03808> faith <0539> in his life <02416>. 24:23 God may let <05414> them rest <08172> in a feeling of security <0983>, but he is constantly watching <05921> <05869> all their ways <01870>. 24:24 They are exalted <07426> for a little <04592> while, and then they are gone <0369>, they are brought low <04355> like all <03605> others, and gathered in <07092>, and like a head <07218> of grain <07641> they are cut off <05243>.’ 24:25 “If <0518> this is not <03808> so, who <04310> can prove me a liar <03576> and reduce <07760> my words <04405> to nothing <0408>?”

• Job 24:1-25 -- The Apparent Indifference of God

• Wine-press

  [ebd] Consisted of two vats or receptacles, (1) a trough (Heb. gath, Gr. lenos) into which the grapes were thrown and where they were trodden upon and bruised (Isa. 16:10; Lam. 1:15; Joel 3:13); and (2) a trough or vat (Heb. yekeb...
  

• Wicked

  [nave] WICKED Compared with: Abominable branches, Isa. 14:19; ashes under the feet, Mal. 4:3; bad fishes, Matt. 13:48; beasts, Psa. 49:12; 2 Pet. 2:12; the blind, Zeph. 1:17; Matt. 15:14; bronze and iron, Jer. 6:28; Ezek. 22:18; br...
  

• WORM

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars ...
  [smith] the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas , which occurs in (Isaiah 51:18) probably denotes some particular species of moth, whose larva is injurious to wool. Rimmah , (Exodus 16:20) points evi...
  

• WINE

  [ebd] The common Hebrew word for wine is yayin, from a root meaning "to boil up," "to be in a ferment." Others derive it from a root meaning "to tread out," and hence the juice of the grape trodden out. The Greek word for wine is ...
  [smith] The manufacture of wine is carried back in the Bible to the age of Noah, (Genesis 9:20,21) to whom the discovery of the process is apparently, though not explicitly, attributed. The natural history and culture of the vine are...
  

• Snow

  [ebd] Common in Palestine in winter (Ps. 147:16). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers (Job 24:19; Ps. 51:...
  

• PALESTINE, 3

  [isbe] PALESTINE, 3 - IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare Gen 22:21 the English Revised Version; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21) and Buz (Job ...
  

• LIGHT

  [isbe] LIGHT - lit ('or, ma'or; phos; many other words): 1. Origin of Light 2. A Comprehensive Term (1) Natural Light (2) Artificial Light (3) Miraculous Light (4) Mental, Moral, Spiritual Light 3. An Attribute of Holiness (1) God ...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• JOB, BOOK OF

  [isbe] JOB, BOOK OF - || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Place in the Canon 2. Rank and Readers II. THE LITERARY FRAMEWORK 1. Setting of Time, Place and Scene 2. Characters and Personality 3. Form and Style III. THE COURSE OF THE STORY A) To Jo...
  

• Homicide

  [nave] HOMICIDE. Accidental Ex. 21:13, 28-32; Num. 35:11-15, 22-28, 32 Deut. 4:41-43; 19:1-10. Josh. 20:1-9 Felonious or Murder: Gen. 4:9-11 v. 12.; Gen. 9:5, 6; Gen. 49:7; Ex. 20:13 Deut. 5:17; Rom. 13:9. Ex. 21:29-32; Num. 35...
  

• God

  [nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...
  

• Fodder

  [ebd] Heb. belil, (Job 6:5), meaning properly a mixture or medley (Lat. farrago), "made up of various kinds of grain, as wheat, barley, vetches, and the like, all mixed together, and then sown or given to cattle" (Job 24:6, A.V. "...
  

• Eye

  [ebd] (Heb. 'ain, meaning "flowing"), applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour (Num. 11:7; R.V., "appearance," marg. "eye"); (3) the face (Ex. 10:5, 15; Num. 22:5, 11), in Num. 14:14, "face to face" (R.V. marg., "eye t...
  

• Dwell

  [ebd] Tents were in primitive times the common dwellings of men. Houses were afterwards built, the walls of which were frequently of mud (Job 24:16; Matt. 6:19, 20) or of sun-dried bricks. God "dwells in light" (1 Tim. 6:16; 1 Joh...
  

• DREDGE

  [ebd] (Job 24:6). See CORN.
  [isbe] DREDGE - drej: A mixture of oats and barley (Job 24:6 the King James Version margin; the King James Version "corn"; the Revised Version (British and American) "provender"). The Hebrew word is belil, usually "mixed grain," ZD...
  

• BETIMES

  [isbe] BETIMES - be-timz': In the sense of "early" is the translation of two Hebrew words: (1) shakham, a root meaning "to incline the shoulder to a load," hence "to load up," "start early": in Gen 26:31 "they rose up betimes in th...
  

• Apparel

  [ebd] In Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked. The statute forbidding men to wear female apparel (Deut. 22:5) referred especially to ornaments and head-dresses. Both men and women ...
  

• ASSASSINATION

  [isbe] ASSASSINATION - a-sas-i-na'-shun. 1. Meaning of the Term: The language of Scripture distinguishes less clearly than the modern juridical between assassination and murder. "Murderer" = rotseach (Nu 35:16-19,21,30,31; 2 Ki 6:3...
  

• ASS

  [isbe] ASS - as (chamowr or chamor, compare Arabic chamar, apparently connected with Arabic root 'achmar, "red," but referred by some to root hamal, "to carry"; also, but less commonly, both in Hebrew and in Arabic, 'athon, Arabic ...
  

• AGRICULTURE

  [ebd] Tilling the ground (Gen. 2:15; 4:2, 3, 12) and rearing cattle were the chief employments in ancient times. The Egyptians excelled in agriculture. And after the Israelites entered into the possession of the Promised Land, the...
  [smith] This was little cared for by the patriarchs. The pastoral life, however, was the means of keeping the sacred race, whilst yet a family, distinct from mixture and locally unattached, especially whilst in Egypt. When grown into...
  

• Men Rebel against the Light

  

• Does the Bible speak more about Hell than Heaven?
  I've heard and read the same statement a number of times, but have never troubled myself to look up each passage. I'm not surprised that looking up "heaven" and "hell" in a concordance would give you contradictory results. T...

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