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FOR THE MORNING IS TO THEM EVEN AS THE SHADOW OF DEATH - They dread
the light as one does usually the deepest darkness. The morning or
light would reveal their deeds of wickedness, and they therefore...
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CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY
_ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_
2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10)
3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1)
4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...
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JOB 24. This chapter has since Merx in 1871 been subjected to much
criticism, the general trend of which has been to deny the whole or a
considerable part of the chapter to Job. Peake, however, consid...
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IF ONE KNOW THEM. See translation below....
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The outrages perpetrated by a different class of wrongdoers, the
murderer (Job 24:14), the adulterer (Job 24:15), and the robber (Job
24:16). Those described in former verses pursued their violent cou...
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This verse expands the last clause of Job 24:16:
For the morning is to them as the shadow of death,
For they know the terrors of the shadow of death.
The "shadow of death" is equivalent almost to ...
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FOR THE MORNING, &C.— _Surely the morning was to him altogether the
shadow of death; because he saw before his eyes the terrors of the
shadow of death._ In this and the next verse, says Mr. Heath, is...
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The lovers of darkness (Job 24:13-17)
TEXT 24:13-17
13 THESE ARE OF THEM THAT REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT;
They know not the ways thereof,
Nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer riseth with t...
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_FOR THE MORNING IS TO THEM EVEN AS THE SHADOW OF DEATH: IF ONE KNOW
THEM, THEY ARE IN THE TERRORS OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH._
They shrink from the "morning" light, as much as other men do from the
blac...
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JOB'S SEVENTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-25. Job continues to express his perplexity at the ways of
Providence in the ordering of the world. The poor and the weak suffer;
violence and wrong go unpunished....
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If _one_ KNOW, etc.] RV 'For they know (are familiar with) the
terrors.' THE SHADOW OF DEATH] i.e. midnight. Light they shrink from,
but midnight is their day.
18-21. These vv. cannot express the sent...
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This behaviour is the opposite of normal behaviour. Normally, we work
during the day. And we do our other activities during the day. Before
people had electricity, this was especially important. Peopl...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 24
JOB CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
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כִּ֤י יַחְדָּ֨ו ׀ בֹּ֣קֶר לָ֣מֹו
צַלְמָ֑וֶת כִּֽי...
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XX.
WHERE IS ELOAH?
Job 23:1; Job 24:1
Job SPEAKS
THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some
reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind.
"Again today, my plain...
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NOT HERE, BUT HEREAFTER
Job 24:1
Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God,
that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then
turns to describe the life o...
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Passing from the personal aspect of his problem, Job considered it in
its wider application. He asked the reason of God's noninterference,
and then proceeded to describe the evidences of it. Men still...
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(11) Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses,
and suffer thirst. (12) Men groan from out of the city, and the soul
of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. ...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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FOR THE MORNING [IS] TO THEM EVEN AS THE SHADOW OF DEATH,.... It is as
disagreeable, and as hateful, and as terrible to them as the grossest
and thickest darkness can be to others. The word יחדו is to...
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For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one]
know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
Ver. 17. _For the morning is unto them as the shadow of death_]
_i.e._...
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_In the dark they dig through houses_ Either the adulterer last
mentioned, or rather the thief or robber, whose common practice this
is, of whom he spake, Job 24:14; and having, on that occasion,
inse...
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For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; the darkest
night is like morning to them, for then they start out on their
nefarious pursuits. IF ONE KNOW THEM, THEY ARE IN THE TERRORS OF THE...
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THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
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DOES GOD FAIL TO GOVERN PROPERLY?
(vv.1-12)
"Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? Why do not they who
know Him see His days?" (v.1 - JND trans.) Job wonders why God (who is
Almighty) do...
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Apparently Job is saying that the wicked fear daylight, just as
ordinary people are afraid of the dark....
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13-17 See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked
designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good.
See what pains those take, who make provision for the flesh...
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AS THE SHADOW OF DEATH, i.e. terrible and hateful, because it both
discovers them and hinders their practices. If they are brought to
light or discovered, they are overwhelmed with deadly horrors and...
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Job 24:17 morning H1242 same H3162 death H6757 recognizes H5234
(H8686) terrors H1091 death H6757
in the terrors -...
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Job 24:1. _Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days?_
«Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such
prosperity?»
Job 24:2. Some remove...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The prosperity of the wicked.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: Though wicked men seem sometimes to be under the special
protection of divine providence, e...
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Job 24:3. _They drive away the ass of the fatherless._ In Job's time
there was no regular government or empire, to bring neighbouring
tyrants to justice; proof sufficient that this book is of the high...
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_The terrors of the shadow of death._
DEATH
Scripture speaks of death in two ways. Job calls death “the King of
Terrors.” Of a saint and martyr it is said, “He fell asleep.”
I. What is it that make...
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_Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty._
GREAT CRIMES NOT ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY GREAT PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE
I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times.
Amongst t...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and
for Job would be more apparent.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:13 Job describes people who oppose wisdom and
righteousness as THOSE WHO REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT. Their reversal of
the typical times of sleep and activity (DEEP DARKNESS has become...
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_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
Prosecutes his own view of the Divine government. Enlarges on the
crimes of one part of men and the sufferings of another as the
consequences of them, to shew...
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EXPOSITION
The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked,
whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail (Job
24:2). A single note of perplexity (Job 24:1) forms a...
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Now, why, seeing the times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days? Some [now you've accused me of these
things, but there are some] that remove the landmarks; and vio...
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2 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:11; Jeremiah 2:26; Job 3:5;...
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Is — Terrible and hateful....