Job 24:24

24. But are gone Better, And are no more. And they are brought low; like all, are they gathered, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Taken out of the way Kaphats, gathered; “snatched away,” (Delitzsch,) “crumpled together,” (Dillmann.) Underneath the word, as Job uses it, lies the idea, Delitzsch thinks, “of housing, gathering into a barn.” This, together with the following figure, bears the look of a reply to Eliphaz, with his rural picture of the death of the just. Job 5:26. Mature in wickedness, malefactors are cut off with no more evidence of divine judgment upon them than belongs to all mankind. Thus Job has turned the finely built fortress of the friends, and left them without an argument. His view of the orb of truth, however, has been of the side where the shadow was deepest. In the heat of debate he has magnified single instances into generals, and left a painful impression as to the providence of God in this world. The reader cannot, however, but feel, even here, that Job has confidence that God can and will solve the mystery.