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Verse Job 24:13. _THEY - REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT_] Speaking of wicked
men. They rebel against the light of God in their consciences, and his
light in his word. They are tyrants _in grain_, and care n...
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THEY ARE OF THOSE THAT REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT - That is, they hate
the light: compare John 3:20. It is unpleasant to them, and they
perform their deeds in the night. Job here commences a reference to...
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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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GOD. There is. pause between Job 24:12 and Job 24:13. "They" is
emphatic. These. Note the three stages of the 1awless: (1) avoiding
the light (Job 24:16; John 3:20); (2) c
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_They are of those_ Rather, THESE ARE OF THEM THAT REBEL. The speaker
introduces a new class of malefactors. The "light" here is of course
the light of day, with the implication, however, that he that...
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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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DISCOURSE: 476
REBELLING AGAINST THE LIGHT
Job 24:13. _They are of those that rebel against the light_.
WE cannot understand any part of the Book of Job aright, unless we
continually keep in mind the...
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THEY ARE OF THOSE THAT REBEL, &C.— Heath, supposing this to allude
to the people who lived before the flood, whose violence and
oppression are recorded in several parts of the sacred scriptures,
rende...
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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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_SOME REMOVE THE LANDMARKS; THEY VIOLENTLY TAKE AWAY FLOCKS, AND FEED
THEREOF._
Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity.
SOME - the wicked.
LANDMARKS - boundaries betwee...
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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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THEY ARE OF THOSE] EV 'These are of them.'...
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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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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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THEY ARE OF THOSE THAT REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT. — A very remarkable
expression, which seems to anticipate the teaching of St. John (Job
1:9, &c.)....
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הֵ֤מָּה ׀ הָיוּ֮ בְּֽ מֹרְדֵ֫י ־אֹ֥ור
לֹֽא ־ה
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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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They are of those that rebel against the (p) light; they know not the
ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
(p) That is, God's word, because they are reproved by it....
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_Light of reason and humanity. (Calmet) --- Pineda understands that
they have sought darkness, (ver. 14.) to do evil. But this expression
would be too harsh. (Calmet) --- Heretics, acting against thei...
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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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THEY ARE OF THOSE THAT REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT,.... The light of
nature, acting contrary to the dictates of their own consciences, in
being guilty of the inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty they were
c...
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They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways
thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Ver. 13. _They are of those that rebel against the light_] Against
the common light of...
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_Those that rebel against the light_ Who sin impudently, in the face
of the sun, and obstinately, in spite of all their light, as well the
light of reason and conscience, which abhors and condemns the...
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They are of those that rebel against the light, enemies of the light,
of that which is good and noble, children of darkness and night,
Romans 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:8; THEY KNOW NOT THE WAYS THEREOF...
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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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. further description of the wicked. Here is. description of those who
rebel against the light (John 3:19-20), and who do their work often
under the cover of physical darkness....
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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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This is added as the general character of the persons before
mentioned, and as a great aggravation of their wickedness, that they
were not modest sinners, which were ashamed of their evil ways, and
th...
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Job 24:13 rebel H4775 (H8802) light H216 know H5234 (H8689) ways H1870
abide H3427 (H8804) paths...
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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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_Rebel against the light._
LIGHT USED FIGURATIVELY
Light may be considered in two ways. Either properly or figuratively.
1. We may understand the text of light in a proper sense, and some
insist ch...
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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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1 John 2:19; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; James 4:17; Job