| Geneva Study Bible They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. Wesley's Notes 24:3 Pledge - Contrary to God's law, first written in mens hearts, and afterwards in holy scripture, Exod 22:26,27. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 3. pledge-alluding to Job 22:6. Others really do, and with impunity, that which Eliphaz falsely charges the afflicted Job with. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 24:1-12 Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, God layeth not folly to them; that is, he does not at once send his judgments, nor make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool, Jer 17:11. | 
