Job 21:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Job 21:24 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 3:8
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Job 15:27
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

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Dead (people)Death Dying Life Man Sleep Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-26)

Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses, I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning their certain ruin in this life. “Tell me how often do you see the candle of the wicked put out? Do you not as often see it burnt down to the socket, until it goes out of itself? Job 21:17. How often do you see their destruction come upon them, or God di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. breasts--rather, “skins,” or “vessels” for fluids [Lee]. But [Umbreit] “stations or resting-places of his herds near water”; in opposition to Zophar (Job 20:17); the first clause refers to his abundant substance, the second to his vigorous health. moistened--comparing man’s body to a well-watered field (Pr 3:8; Is 58:11).