Job 24:6

Easy-to-Read Version

They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They gather their fodder in the fieldand glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Hebrew Names Version
They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

King James Version
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

English Standard Version
They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

New Century Version
They gather hay and straw in the fields and pick up leftover grapes from the vineyard of the wicked.

New English Translation
They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Amplified Bible
"They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own], And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

New American Standard Bible
"They harvest their feed in the field And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

World English Bible
They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.

Legacy Standard Bible
They harvest their fodder in the fieldAnd glean the vineyard of the wicked.

Berean Standard Bible
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
If they want grain or grapes, they must go to the property of these sinners.

Complete Jewish Bible
They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.

Darby Translation
They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;

George Lamsa Translation
They cut hay in a field which is not theirs; and they gather grapes from the vineyard of the wicked.

Good News Translation
They have to harvest fields they don't own, and gather grapes in vineyards of the wicked.

Lexham English Bible
They reap their fodder in the field, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Literal Translation
They reap his fodder in the field, and they glean the wicked's vineyard.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They reape the corne felde that is not their owne: and gather the grapes out of his vynyarde, whom they haue oppressed by violence.

American Standard Version
They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Bible in Basic English
They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.

King James Version (1611)
They reape euery one his corne in the fielde: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They reape the corne fielde that is not their owne, and let the vineyarde of the vngodly alone.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

English Revised Version
They cut their provender in the field; and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei kitten doun a feeld not hern, and thei gaderen grapis of his vyner, whom thei han oppressid bi violence.

Update Bible Version
They cut their fodder in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Webster's Bible Translation
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

New King James Version
They gather their fodder in the field And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

New Living Translation
They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

New Life Bible
They gather food in the fields, and gather what they can that is left from the grape-fields owned by the sinful.

New Revised Standard
They reap in a field not their own and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the field - -a man's fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

Revised Standard Version
They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

Young's Literal Translation
In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They harvest their fodder in the field And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

Contextual Overview

¹ "Why doesn't God All-Powerful set times for judgment? And why can't his followers know when those times will be? ² "People move property markers to get more of their neighbor's land. People steal flocks and lead them to other grasslands. ³ They steal a donkey that belongs to an orphan. They take a widow's cow until she pays what she owes them. They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. ⁴ They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. ⁵ "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. ⁶ They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. ⁷ They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. ⁸ They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry. They press out olive oil and walk on grapes in the winepress, but they have nothing to drink. In the city you can hear the sad sounds of dying people. Those who are hurt cry out for help, but God does not listen. "Some people rebel against the light. They don't know what God wants. They don't live the way he wants. A murderer gets up at dawn and kills poor, helpless people. And at night he becomes a thief. A man who commits adultery waits for the night to come. He thinks, ‘No one will see me,' but still, he covers his face. When it is dark, evil people go out and break into houses. But during the day they lock themselves in their homes to avoid the light. The darkest night is their morning. They are friends with the terrors of darkness. " You say, ‘Evil people are taken away like things carried away in a flood. The land they own is cursed, so no one goes to work in their vineyards. As hot, dry weather melts away the winter snows, so the grave takes away those who have sinned. Their own mothers will forget them. Only the worms will want them. No one will remember them. They will be broken like a rotten stick! These evil people hurt women who have no children to protect them, and they refuse to help widows. By his power God removes the powerful. Even if they have a high position, they cannot be sure of their lives. They might feel safe and secure, but God is watching how they live. They might be successful for a while, but then they will be gone. Like everyone else, they will be cut down like grain.' "I swear these things are true! Who can prove that I lied? Who can show that I am wrong?" ⁹ They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. ¹⁰ They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They reap: Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:51, Judges 6:3-6, Micah 6:15

corn: Heb. mingled corn, or, dredge

they gather: etc. Heb. the wicked gather the vintage.

Reciprocal: Job 31:8 - let me Proverbs 4:17 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 24:13
Here I am, standing by this well of water, and the young women from the city are coming out to get water.

Genesis 24:16
She was very pretty. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the well and filled her jar.

Genesis 24:20
So Rebekah quickly poured all the water from her jar into the drinking trough for the camels. Then she ran to the well to get more water, and she gave water to all the camels.

Genesis 24:22
After the camels finished drinking, he gave Rebekah a gold ring that weighed 1/4 ounce. He also gave her two gold arm bracelets that weighed 2 ounces each.

Galatians 5:1
We have freedom now, because Christ made us free. So stand strong in that freedom. Don't go back into slavery again.

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not those who turn back and are lost. No, we are the people who have faith and are saved.

Hebrews 11:9
Abraham lived in the country that God promised to give him. He lived there like a visitor who did not belong. He did this because he had faith. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who also received the same promise from God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 are so insolent and impudent, that they do not take the corn out of their barns by stealth, but while it is standing in the field; they come openly and reap it down, as if it was their own, without any fear of God or men: it is observed, that the word k signifies a mixture of the poorer sorts of corn, which is scarce anything better than food for cattle; yet this they cut down and carry off, as forage for their horses and asses at least. Some of the ancient versions, taking it to be two words, render them, "which is not their own" l; they go into a field that is not theirs, and reap corn that do not belong to them, that they have no right unto, and so are guilty of great injustice, and of doing injury to others:

and they gather the vintage of the wicked; gather the grapes off of the vines of wicked men, which are gathered, as the word signifies, at the latter end of the year, in autumn; and though they belong to wicked men like themselves, yet they spare them not, but seize on all that come to hand, whether the property of good men or bad men; and thus sometimes one wicked man is an instrument of punishing another: or "the wicked gather the vintage" m; that is, of the poor; as they reap where they have not sown, they gather of that they have not planted.

k בלילו "migma suum", Bolducius; "farraginem ejus [vel] suam", Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis. l ουκ αυτων Sept. "non suum", V. L. so the Targum, and Aben Ezra, Grotius, Codurcus. m וכרם רשע ילקשו "et in vinea (aliena) vindemiant impii", Tigurine version "vineasque vindemiant impii", Castalio.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They reap every one his corn - Margin, “mingled corn,” or “dredge.” The word used here (בליל b^elı̂yl) denotes, properly, “meslin,” mixed provender, made up of various kinds of grain, as of barley, vetches, etc., prepared for cattle; see the notes at Isaiah 30:24.

In the field - They break in upon the fields of others, and rob them of their grain, instead of cultivating the earth themselves. So it is rendered by Jerome - Agrum non suum deme-runt; et vineam ejus, quem vi. oppresserint vindemiant. The Septuagint renders it, “A field, not their own, they reap down before the time - πρὸ ὥρας pro hōras.

They gather the vintage of the wicked - Margin, “the wicked gather the vintage.” Rather, they gather the vintage of the oppressor. It is not the vintage of honest industry; not a harvest which is the result of their own labor, but of plunder. They live by depredations on others. This is descriptive of those who support themselves by robbery.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:6. They reap every one his corn in the field — This is perfectly characteristic. These wandering hordes often make sudden irruptions, and carry off the harvest of grain, olives, vines, &c., and plunge with it into the wilderness, where none can follow them. The Chaldee gives the same sense: "They reap in a field that is not their own, and cut off the vineyard of the wicked."