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God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
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Job's Painful Observation
Most commentators agree that this verse is part of Job's complaint. He observes that God appears to give wicked oppressors safety and security. As scholars like Barnes and Gill note, Job's point is that God's watchful eyes seem to sustain and prosper the wicked, not punish them, which is a source of profound confusion and pain for the righteous.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Though it be given him to be in safety - That is, God gives him safety. The name God is often understood, or not expressed. The mea…
19th Century
Anglican
Though it be given. —“Indeed, he (that is, each of them) gives him tribute, and so on, so that he may be secure and stabl…
Baptist
In the East, they generally reap their harvest by just taking off the tops of the heads of grain, and leaving the straw. Thus will the wicked be cu…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety Or "he gives him" F7 , that is, it is God gives the wicked man…
Sometimes, how gradual is the decay, how quiet the departure of a wicked person, how honoured he is, and how soon all his cruelties and oppressions…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding chapter, Job argued that he had not been punished because of wickedness, as Eliphaz had asserted (Job 22:5). Now, he w…
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