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Verse Job 24:14. _THE MURDERER RISING WITH THE LIGHT_] Perhaps the
words should be read as Mr. _Good_ has done: -
With the daylight ariseth the murderer;
Poor and needy, he sheddeth blood.
This des...
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THE MURDERER - One of the instances, referred to in the previous
verse, of those who perform their deeds in darkness.
RISING WITH THE LIGHT - Hebrew לאור _lā'ôr_. Vulgate “_Mane
primo_ - in the ear...
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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 (Job...
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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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AND. and [then again]....
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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 MURDERER RISING WITH THE LIGHT— _In broad day-light the murderer
would arise, and slay the poor and the defenceless._ See Micah 7:6.
The two verbs _arise_ and _slay_ signify, by a common Hebraism,...
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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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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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WITH THE LIGHT. — The mention of light as a moral essence suggests
its physical analogue, so that by the contrast of the one with the
violence done to the other, the moral turpitude of the wrong-doing...
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לָ † אֹ֡ור יָ֘ק֤וּם רֹוצֵ֗חַ יִֽקְטָל
־עָנִ֥י וְ אֶבְיֹ֑ון וּ֝ בַ †
לַּ֗יְלָה יְהִ֣י כַ...
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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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_Thief. Oppressing the poor, (Ven. Bede) and taking away their bread,
Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 25._...
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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 MURDERER RISING WITH THE LIGHT,.... The light of the morning,
before the sun is risen, about the time the early traveller is set out
on his journey, and men go to distant markets to buy and sell g...
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The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in
the night is as a thief.
Ver. 14. _The murderer rising with the light_] Sometimes, while it is
yet darkish; for here Job showeth...
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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 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) d...
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The murderer. The expression "at dawn" can also mean at the close of
light, at night....
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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 t...
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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; where he finds nothi...
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Job 24:14 murderer H7523 (H8802) rises H6965 (H8799) light H216 kills
H6991 (H8799) poor H6041 needy H34 night H3915 thief H1590
murderer - 2 Samuel 11:14-17; Psalms 10:8-10; Micah 2:1-2;...
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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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_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 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Samuel 11:14; Ephesians 5:7; Luke 12:39; Micah
2:1; Micah 2:2; Psalms 10:8; Revelation 3:3...
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Poor — Where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he
exercises his cruelty....