Bible Strands
Job 24:6
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his friends in a discourse on divine justice, describing the desperate foraging of the poor between statements of their wild-donkey-like survival and their exposure to the cold.
The words — יְלַקֵּֽשׁוּ (ye.la.Ke.shu) means they glean, and יִקְצ֑וֹרוּ (yak.tzi.ru) means they harvest, describing the poor scavenging crops.
The thread — This pattern of displaced harvest appears in Micah 6:15, where sowing yields no reap, and in Deuteronomy 28:33 and Deuteronomy 28:51, where foreign forces consume the land's produce.
Why it lands — The text forces a reader to confront the reality that the poor survive by scavenging the wicked's crops, demanding an acknowledgment of unjust resource distribution before any theological resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Cross-references
- Micah 6:15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Deuteronomy 28:33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
- Judges 6:3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,