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Job 24:24 King James They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Job repeats what he said (Job 21:13), that sinners die in exalted positions, not the painful and lingering death we might expect, but a quick and easy death. Join "for a while" with "are gone," not as English Version. Translate: "A moment--and they are no more! They are brought low, as all (others) gather up their feet to die" (so the Hebrew of "are taken out of the way"). A natural death (Gen 49:33).

ears of corn--in a ripe and full age, not prematurely (Job 5:26).
 
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26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.