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 — They do not approve, nor love, or chuse them.
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...
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...
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...
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
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
THEY ARE OF THOSE] EV 'These are of them.'...
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...
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.)....
הֵ֤מָּה ׀ הָיוּ֮ בְּֽ מֹרְדֵ֫י ־אֹ֥ור לֹֽא ־ה
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...
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....
_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...
(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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
. 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....
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...
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...
Job 24:13 rebel H4775 (H8802) light H216 know H5234 (H8689) ways H1870 abide H3427 (H8804) paths...
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...
_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...
_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 John 2:19; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; James 4:17; Job