He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
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He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
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He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
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He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquisition, and setteth others in their stead.
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Passages linked to Job 34:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
- Psalms 72:4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
- Psalms 94:5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
- Psalms 113:7-8 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap, that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
- Daniel 2:21 He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.
- 1 Samuel 2:30-36 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed. Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house. You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever. The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age. This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die. I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever. It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.” ’ ”
- 1 Kings 14:7-8 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel, and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
- 1 Kings 14:14 Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
- Job 12:19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
- Job 19:2 “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
- Jeremiah 51:20-23 “You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms. With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider. With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin. With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies.
- Daniel 2:34-35 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:44-45 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever. Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
- Daniel 5:28-31 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.” Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
- 1 Samuel 15:28 Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For all his creatures are at hand to serve…
For all his creatures are at hand to serve him, so that he needeth not to seek for any other army.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men…
Job 34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
Ver. 24. He shall break in pieces mighty men, &c.] Infinite conterit validos, so Tremellius rendereth it. He infinitely mauleth the mighty; and breaketh them in pieces like a potter’s vessel, Psa 2:9.
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Without number] Or, Without inquisition; as knowing all things beforehand, and not needing any evidences or examination of witnesses; or, without end, because their ruin is endless, Ruina maiorum sit cautela minorum.
And set others in their stead] As is to be seen in the rise, reign, and ruin of the four mighty monarchies, and others not a few, that had their times and their turns; as the kingdom of the ten tribes, which in a few years fell into nine different families; and few of those kings died a natural death. No more did the emperors of Rome, till Constantine. See Dan 2:21 Psa 113:7-8.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Mighty men without number; neither their greatness nor their…
Mighty men without number; neither their greatness nor their numbers can secure them from the stroke of God’s justice.
Set others in their stead, i.e. give away their power and dignity to others who shall come in their place.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He striketh them as wicked men,.... Such is the…
He striketh them as wicked men,.... Such is the strict justice of God, that he never strikes men, or inflicts punishment on them, or brings down his judgments upon them, but as wicked men, and because of their wickedness; the casting of man out of Eden was for his sin, as well as the casting down the angels from heaven that sinned; the drowning of the old world, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the ruin of Pharaoh and his host, the driving the Canaanites out of their land, the various captivities of the Israelites, with other instances of God's displeasure with men in this world, and the everlasting punishment of them in another, are only of them as wicked men, and for sin; and therefore he is not chargeable with any unrighteousness. Sephorno interprets it, "instead of wicked men", and illustrates it by the shaking out of Pharaoh and his host into the sea in the room and stead of the wicked Israelites, that came up from thence,
in the open sight of others: which the same interpreter refers to the Israelites seeing the Egyptians dead on the seashore; or "in the place of them that see" (f), that is, in a public manner, as generally malefactors are executed, to which the allusion may be; it denotes the publicness of God's righteous judgments on wicked men, for the greater declaration of his power and justice, and for the greater shame and disgrace of such wicked men, and for the joy and comfort of the righteous delivered from them.
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(f) "in loco videntium", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Michaelis; "in loco spectantium", Beza, Cocceius, Schultens.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 24. He shall break in pieces] In multitudes…
Verse 24. He shall break in pieces] In multitudes of cases God depresses the proud, and raises up the humble and meek. Neither their strength nor number can afford them security.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 34:24-26. He shall break in pieces mighty men,…
Job 34:24-26. He shall break in pieces mighty men, &c. — Neither their greatness nor their numbers can secure them from the stroke of God’s justice; and set others in their stead — Give away their power and dignity to others, who shall come in their place. Therefore he knoweth their works — That is, it appears from this that he knows all their evil works, because he judges and punishes them for them; and he overturneth them in the night — When they are at rest and secure; or, he turneth or bringeth upon them the night, namely, of calamity and tribulation, as the next words explain it, and as the words light and darkness are often used. He striketh them as wicked men — That is, as he useth to smite wicked men; or, as תחת, tachath, rather means here, according to Ab. Ezra, inter improbos, among the wicked, or, for wicked men; that is, because they are wicked men, therefore he destroys them without any regard to their quality; in the open sight of others — In public view, for their greater shame, for the greater glory of God’s justice, and for the greater terror of other wicked persons.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain He shall break in pieces - He crushes or…
He shall break in pieces - He crushes or destroys the great. He is not intimidated by their wealth, their rank, or their number.
Without number - Margin, more correctly, “searching out.” That is, he does it without the protracted process of a judicial investigation. The Hebrew word used here (חקר chêqer) means properly “a searching out,” “an examination”; and the meaning here is, that there is no need of his going into a protracted investigation into the lives of wicked people before he brings them to punishment. He sees them at once; knows all their conduct, and may proceed against them without delay. Hence, it is that he comes often in such a sudden manner, and cuts them off. A human tribunal is under a necessity of examining witnesses and of attending to all the palliating circumstances, before it can pronounce a sentence on an offender. But it is not so with God. He judges at once and directly, and comes forth therefore in a sudden manner to cut down the guilty.
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And set others in their stead - Place others in the situation which they now occupy. That is, he can with the utmost case make entire revolutions among people.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Stead. Where are not the ancient Assyrians, Carthaginians, &c.,…
Stead. Where are not the ancient Assyrians, Carthaginians, &c., who once made such a figure in the world? (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "glorious and sudden, and unnumbered." The next eight verses are taken from Theodotion. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain break in pieces-- (Psa 2:9; Job 12:18; Dan 2:21).
break in pieces-- (Psa 2:9; Job 12:18; Dan 2:21).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 24. Without number — לא חקר. Without searching. God…
24. Without number — לא חקר. Without searching. God needs no process of investigation that he may discern, sever, and “break in pieces” the guilty.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. he shall break … without number] Rather, he…
24. he shall break … without number] Rather, he breaketh … without inquisition. The verse amplifies the conception of the preceding verse.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Without number.—Rather, in an unsearchable manner, as before,…
(24) Without number.—Rather, in an unsearchable manner, as before, Job_34:20, “without hand,” i.e., without human means.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He shall break in pieces mighty men without number;…
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number; rather, in ways that are unsearchable, or in ways past finding out (see the Revised Version). And set others in their stead. (comp. 1Sa_2:7 Psa_75:7 Dan_2:21)
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He breaks mighty men into pieces
This speaks of God destroying these men as if he actually broke their bodies into pieces. AT: "He destroys mighty men" or "He destroys important people" (See: Idiom)
for their ways that need no further investigation
He does not need to investigate what they have done because he already knows everything about them. AT: "without needing to do further investigation, because he already knows their ways" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
their ways
This is an idiom. AT: "the things they have done"
he puts others in their places
This means that he appoints other people to rule in their positions. AT: "and he chooses other people to rule in their places" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
in the night
This is an idiom. AT: "when they are not expecting it" (See: Idiom)
they are destroyed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "and destroys them" (See: Active or Passive)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 34:24 God knows everything without asking anyone (34:25). •…
34:24 God knows everything without asking anyone (34:25). • sets up others in their place: Dan 2:21; 5:28-30.
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