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Job Chapter 24 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Job 24:23

`God' giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.
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BBE Job 24:23

He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.
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DARBY Job 24:23

[God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.
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KJV Job 24:23

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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WBT Job 24:23

Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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WEB Job 24:23

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
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YLT Job 24:23

He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes `are' on their ways.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; rather, he (i.e. God) granteth him to be in security and thereon he resteth; i.e. God allows the escape of the wicked man from his trouble, and lets him live on, safe and secure, and the man himself rests on the security thus afforded him, quite contented with it. Yet his eyes are upon their ways. God's eyes are still upon the ways of the wicked: they are, or seem to be, the objects of a special providential care.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Though it be given.--"Yea, he, that is each of them, giveth him tribute, &c., that he may be secure and stable."Yet his eyes--that is, the great tyrant's eyes--are upon their ways.--They are exalted for a little while, but are soon gone, and are taken out of the way like all others. Some understand the subject of the first verb, "he giveth him to be in security," to be God, and that also makes very good sense, for while God so allows him to be secure, His eyes are on their ways, the ways of all of them. In this case, however, Job 24:24 does not correspond so well with what Job has already said of the impunity with which the wicked are wicked, unless indeed the suddenness of their fate is the main point of his remarks, as in Job 24:19.