Job 24:6 | TNotes | STEP | 24:6 glean in the vineyards of the wicked: Job was depicting the desperate condition of the poor. If their fields had been stolen like Naboth’s vineyard (24:2 ; see 1 Kgs 21:1-29 ), the poor would harvest for the thieving owners what should have been their own crops; instead of owning the whole crop, they would get just the leftover pickings for themselves. Perhaps the point is that the poor were forced to glean from the fields of wicked people who left no gleanings (Lev 19:10 ; 23:22 ), instead of being able to glean from the righteous, who leave something for the poor (Lev 19:9-10 ; 23:22 ; Ruth 2:1-23 ).

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‏ Job 24:6

24:6 ^a glean in the vineyards of the wicked: Job was depicting the desperate condition of the poor. If their fields had been stolen like Naboth’s vineyard (24:2 ^b; see 1 Kgs 21:1-29 ^c), the poor would harvest for the thieving owners what should have been their own crops; instead of owning the whole crop, they would get just the leftover pickings for themselves. Perhaps the point is that the poor were forced to glean from the fields of wicked people who left no gleanings (Lev 19:10 ^d; 23:22 ^e), instead of being able to glean from the righteous, who leave something for the poor (Lev 19:9-10 ^f; 23:22 ^g; Ruth 2:1-23 ^h).