Matthew Henry Commentary Job 24:1-12

"Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days? There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow`s ox for a pledge. They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves. Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children. They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked. They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold. They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter. There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; [So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves. They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly." — Job 24:1-12 (ASV)

Job discusses further the prosperity of the wicked. He had previously shown, in chapter 21, that many who are ungodly and profane live at ease.

Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice succeed in their wicked practices, and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He observes those who do wrong under the pretense of law and authority; and robbers—those who do wrong by force. Job says, God layeth not folly to them; that is, God does not immediately send his judgments or make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool (Jeremiah 17:11).