Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 24:16
Dig through houses] Walls of Eastern houses are often made of clay or sun-burnt bricks, which crumble easily: cp. Matthew 6:20; RM. The robbers do not break in by the door since the threshold is sacred.
Dig through houses] Walls of Eastern houses are often made of clay or sun-burnt bricks, which crumble easily: cp. Matthew 6:20; RM. The robbers do not break in by the door since the threshold is sacred.
Verse Job 24:16. _IN THE DARK THEY DIG THROUGH HOUSES_] Thieves in Bengal very frequently dig through the _mud wall_ and under the _clay floors_ of houses, and, entering unperceived, plunder them whil...
IN THE DARK THEY DIG THROUGH HOUSES - This refers, probably, to another class of wicked persons. The adulterer steals forth in the night, but it is not his way to “dig” into houses. But the persons he...
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...
THEY: i.e. burglars....
_which they had marked_ Rather, THEY SHUT (lit. _seal_) THEMSELVES UP IN THE DAYTIME. In the dark the housebreaker digs through the wall, which in many Eastern houses is of clay or soft brick; in the...
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...
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...
_IN THE DARK THEY DIG THROUGH HOUSES, WHICH THEY HAD MARKED FOR THEMSELVES IN THE DAYTIME: THEY KNOW NOT THE LIGHT._ Dig through. Houses in the East are generally built of sun-dried mud bricks (so Ma...
24:16 in; (e-13) Some render it, 'that they had marked in the daytime.'...
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...
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...
WHICH THEY HAD MARKED FOR THEMSELVES IN THE DAYTIME. — Or, as some understand, _they seal_ (_i.e_., shut) _themselves up in the daytime._ It is said that it is still the custom in Eastern cities for s...
חָתַ֥ר בַּ † חֹ֗שֶׁךְ בָּ֫תִּ֥ים יֹומָ֥ם חִתְּמוּ...
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...
Themselves. The band of robbers had marked out their prey. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "In the day time they lie concealed, and know not the light." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, or rather Theodotion, from whom...
(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...
IN THE DARK THEY DIG THROUGH HOUSES, [WHICH] THEY HAD MARKED FOR THEMSELVES IN THE DAYTIME,.... Which some understand of adulterers last mentioned, who, having observed where beautiful women dwell, ma...
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. Ver. 16. _In the dark they dig through the earth, &c._] Heb. He digs through house...
_In the dark they dig through houses_ Either the adulterer last mentioned, or rather the thief or robber, whose common practice this is, of whom he spake, Job 24:14; and having, on that occasion, inse...
THE HIDDEN WAYS OF GOD WITH REGARD TO THE WICKED...
In the dark they dig through houses, the walls of the poorer houses being constructed of dried mud, through which the thief could force his way, WHICH THEY HAD MARKED FOR THEMSELVES IN THE DAYTIME; TH...
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 thief, who in the ancient world, would actually dig into. house (Exodus 22:1), they were still digging in Jesus' time (Matthew 6:19)....
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...
THEY DIG; either, 1. The adulterer last mentioned; although such persons do not use nor need these violent courses to get into the house of the adulteress, but are commonly admitted upon milder and e...
Job 24:16 dark H2822 break H2864 (H8804) houses H1004 marked H2856 (H8765) daytime H3119 know H3045 ...
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...
Ephesians 5:11; Exodus 22:2; Exodus 22:3; Ezekiel 12:12; Ezekiel 12:5
They — The robber: having on that occasion inserted the mention of the adulterer as one who acted his sin in the same manner as the night — thief did, he now returns to him again....