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A Picture of Exploitation
Commentators explain that this verse paints a vivid picture of extreme injustice. The poor are forced to labor, carrying sheaves of grain for the wealthy, yet they are left naked and starving. Scholars note this is worse than the cruelty forbidden by Mosaic law, which even allowed working animals to eat from the harvest (Deuteronomy 25:4). It's a powerful image of the wicked profiting from the suffering of the vulnerable.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 24:10
18th Century
Theologian
And they take away the sheaf from the hungry - The meaning of this is, that the hungry are compelled to bear the sheaf for the rich…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 24:10
19th Century
Bishop
They cause him to go naked without clothing. — Rather, they go about, or, so that they go about, naked witho…
Charles Spurgeon
On Job 24:6–12
19th Century
Preacher
He lets them alone, leaves them to do as they please. So it seems; but this is not the day of judgment, and this is not the place of final retribut…
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John Gill
On Job 24:10
17th Century
Pastor
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing
Having taken his raiment from him for a pledge, or refusing to give hi…
Matthew Henry
On Job 24:1–12
17th Century
Minister
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.
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