11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job’s friends had been very positive in it that they should soon see the fall of wicked people, how much soever they might prosper for a while. By no means, says Job; though times are not hidden from the Almighty , yet those that know him do not presently see his day , Job 24:1. 1. He takes it for granted that times are not hidden from the Almighty; past times are not hidden from his judgment (Ecc…
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