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Verse Job 24:15. _THE EYE ALSO OF THE ADULTERER_] This is another sin
particularly of the city. The _adulterer_ has made his _assignation_;
he has _marked the house_ of her into whose good graces he...
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THE EYE ALSO OF THE ADULTERER WAITETH FOR THE TWILIGHT; - compare the
description in Proverbs 7:8, “He went the way to her house; in the
twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night.”
AND DIS...
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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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TWILIGHT. darkness.. Homonym. See notes on 1 Samuel 30:17; 2 Kings
7:5....
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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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The adulterer waits for the "twilight," i. e. of even. Then he
disguises himself, or puts a cover on his face, that he may enter
undetected the house of his neighbour....
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THE EYE ALSO OF THE ADULTERER— The 16th verse appears to refer to
the _thief or house-breaker,_ mentioned Job 24:14, in which case this
verse must stand in a parenthesis. See Heath and Schultens. I wo...
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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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_THE EYE ALSO OF THE ADULTERER WAITETH FOR THE TWILIGHT, SAYING, NO
EYE SHALL SEE ME: AND DISGUISETH HIS FACE._
(Proverbs 7:9; Psalms 10:11.)
DISGUISETH - puts a veil on....
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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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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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וְ עֵ֤ין נֹאֵ֨ף ׀ שָׁ֤מְרָֽה נֶ֣שֶׁף
לֵ֭ אמֹר
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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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The eye also of the (q) adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No
eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
(q) By these particular vices and the licence of it, he would prove
that God did no...
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_Face. Septuagint insinuate "with a mask." Protestants, "disguiseth
his face."_...
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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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THE EYE ALSO OF THE ADULTERER WAITETH FOR THE TWILIGHT,.... Not of the
morning, which would not give him time enough to satiate his lust, but
of the evening, that he may have the whole night before hi...
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye
shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
Ver. 15. _The eye also of the adulterer waiteth_] Observeth,
expecteth, and longeth til...
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_The murderer rising with the light_ As soon as the light appears,
using no less diligence in his wicked practices than labourers do in
their honest and daily employments; _killeth the poor and needy_...
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, the approach
of the evening when he can follow his unclean craft, SAYING, NO EYE
SHALL SEE ME; AND DISGUISETH HIS FACE, putting on not only a he...
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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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DISGUISETH HIS FACE:
_ Heb._ setteth his face in secret...
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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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THE EYE OF THE ADULTERER, i.e. the adulterer; but he mentions his eye,
because the eye discerns the difference between light and darkness.
THE TWILIGHT, to wit, for the evening twilight, which is his...
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Job 24:15 eye H5869 adulterer H5003 (H8802) waits H8104 (H8804)
twilight H5399 Saying H559 (H8800) eye...
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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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_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 Samuel 11:4; 2 Samuel 12:12; Exodus 20:14; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9: