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Job 24:13-17

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 course openly, they had law or at least custom on their side, and their cruelties did no more than illustrate the rights of property; those now mentioned are "rebels against the light" and operate under cover of the darkness.

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See also Job 24:13-17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY ARE OF THOSE] EV 'These are of them.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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.)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֤מָּה ׀ הָיוּ֮ בְּֽ מֹרְדֵ֫י ־אֹ֥ור לֹֽא ־ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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. ...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    . 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....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 24:13 rebel H4775 (H8802) light H216 know H5234 (H8689) ways H1870 abide H3427 (H8804) paths...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and for Job would be more apparent. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 2:19; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; James 4:17; Job

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Light — As well the light of reason and conscience, as the light of Divine revelation, which was then in good measure imparted to the people of God, and shortly after committed to writing. Know not —...

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