George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 24:14
Thief. Oppressing the poor, (Ven. Bede) and taking away their bread, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 25.
Thief. Oppressing the poor, (Ven. Bede) and taking away their bread, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 25.
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 de...
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...
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 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...
AND. and [then again]....
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...
_with the light_ i. e. toward day-break, while it is still partially dark. At such an hour the murderer waylays the solitary traveller. _is as a thief_ i. e. acts the thief, becomes a thief....
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,...
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...
_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...
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....
WITH THE LIGHT] i.e. while it is still twilight. But with a very slight emendation we might read, 'when there is no light.'...
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...
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...
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...
לָ † אֹ֡ור יָ֘ק֤וּם רֹוצֵ֗חַ יִֽקְטָל ־עָנִ֥י...
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...
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...
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...
(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. ...
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...
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...
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...
_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_...
The murderer rising with the light, at the dawn, before it is yet broad daylight, KILLETH THE POOR AND NEEDY, slaying tile defenseless to satisfy his bloodthirstiness, AND IN THE NIGHT IS AS A THIEF,...
THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
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...
The murderer. The expression "at dawn" can also mean at the close of light, at night....
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...
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...
Job 24:14 murderer H7523 (H8802) rises H6965 (H8799) light H216 kills H6991 (H8799) poor H6041 needy...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and for Job would be more apparent. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Samuel 11:14; Ephesians 5:7; Luke 12:39;...
Poor — Where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he exercises his cruelty....