Job 24:23
New International Version
He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.

New Living Translation
They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them.

English Standard Version
He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways.

Berean Standard Bible
He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

King James Bible
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

New King James Version
He gives them security, and they rely on it; Yet His eyes are on their ways.

New American Standard Bible
“He provides them with security, and they are supported; And His eyes are on their ways.

NASB 1995
“He provides them with security, and they are supported; And His eyes are on their ways.

NASB 1977
“He provides them with security, and they are supported; And His eyes are on their ways.

Legacy Standard Bible
He provides them with security, and they are supported; And His eyes are on their ways.

Amplified Bible
“God gives them security, and they are supported; And His eyes are on their ways.

Christian Standard Bible
He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it, but his eyes watch over their ways.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it, but His eyes watch over their ways.

American Standard Version
God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he will dwell in quietness and his eyes will be confident also on their ways

Brenton Septuagint Translation
When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.

Contemporary English Version
God may let them feel secure, but they are never out of his sight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon his ways.

English Revised Version
God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; and his eyes are upon their ways.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[God] may let them feel confident and self-reliant, but his eyes are on their ways.

Good News Translation
God may let them live secure, but keeps an eye on them all the time.

International Standard Version
He gives them security and financial support, but he watches everything they do.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth, Yet His eyes are upon their ways.

Literal Standard Version
He gives to him confidence, and he is supported, | And His eyes [are] on their ways.

Majority Standard Bible
He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

New American Bible
he gives safety and support, and his eyes are on their ways.

NET Bible
God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

New Revised Standard Version
He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.

New Heart English Bible
He gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

Webster's Bible Translation
Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

World English Bible
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

Young's Literal Translation
He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes are on their ways.

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Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
22Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life. 23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways. 24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.…

Cross References
Job 10:4
Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

Job 11:11
Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure--those who carry their god in their hands.

Job 31:4
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

Job 34:21
For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.

Psalm 119:168
I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.


Treasury of Scripture

Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways.

it be given

Psalm 73:3-12
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…

Jeremiah 12:1-3
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? …

whereon

Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Isaiah 10:8-11
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? …

Isaiah 56:12
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

yet his eyes

Psalm 10:13,14
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it

Psalm 11:4,5
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men…

Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

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(23) Though it be given.--"Yea, he, that is each of them, giveth him tribute, &c., that he may be secure and stable."

Yet his eyes--that is, the great tyrant's eyes--are upon their ways.--They are exalted for a little while, but are soon gone, and are taken out of the way like all others. Some understand the subject of the first verb, "he giveth him to be in security," to be God, and that also makes very good sense, for while God so allows him to be secure, His eyes are on their ways, the ways of all of them. In this case, however, Job 24:24 does not correspond so well with what Job has already said of the impunity with which the wicked are wicked, unless indeed the suddenness of their fate is the main point of his remarks, as in Job 24:19.

Verse 23. - Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; rather, he (i.e. God) granteth him to be in security and thereon he resteth; i.e. God allows the escape of the wicked man from his trouble, and lets him live on, safe and secure, and the man himself rests on the security thus afforded him, quite contented with it. Yet his eyes are upon their ways. God's eyes are still upon the ways of the wicked: they are, or seem to be, the objects of a special providential care.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He gives
יִתֶּן־ (yit·ten-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

them
ל֣וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

a sense of security,
לָ֭בֶטַח (lā·ḇe·ṭaḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 983: A place of refuge, safety, safely

but His eyes
וְ֝עֵינֵ֗יהוּ (wə·‘ê·nê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

are on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

their ways.
דַּרְכֵיהֶֽם׃ (dar·ḵê·hem)
Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action


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