They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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Gill's Exposition
They reap everyone his corn in the field,.... Not the poor, who are obliged to reap the corn of the wicked for them without any wages, as some; but rather the wicked reap the corn of the poor; they…
Barnes' Notes
They reap every one his corn - Margin, “mingled corn,” or “dredge.” The word used here (בליל belı̂yl) denotes, properly, “meslin,” mixed provender, made up of various kinds of grain, as of barley,…
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…
Cambridge Bible
The verse reads,
They reap their fodder in the field,
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.
The coarse food which they can possess themselves of is called by the poet "their fodder"; it is scarcely…
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