montes humectantur, is false; in correct Codd. זרם has also Munach; the other Munach is, as in Job 23:5, Job 23:9, Job 24:6, and freq., a substitute for Dechî. Having sketched this special class of the oppressed, and those who are abandoned to the bitterest want, Job proceeds with his description of the many forms of wrong which prevail unpunished on the earth:
Verses 9-12
Job 24:9-12 9 They tear the fatherless from the breast,
And defraud the poor. 10 Naked, they slink away without clothes,
And hungering they bear the sheaves. 11 Between their walls they squeeze out the oil;
They tread the wine-presses, and suffer thirst. 12 In the city vassals groan, And the soul of the oppressed crieth out -
And Eloah heedeth not the anomaly.
The accentuation of Job 24:9 (יגזלו with Dechî, משׁד with Munach)
