約伯記 24:13-17 Cunpts
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:13
They are of those who rebel against the light . These city oppressors go beyond the others in entirely rejecting the light of reason, conscience, and law. They threw off every restraint. The "light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world" is nothing to them. They know not the ways thereof. They will not know, will not have anything to do with, the law of moral restraint—much less will they abide in the paths thereof; i.e. acknowledge and be guided by such restraints... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:13-25
Job to Eliphaz: 5. Ancient rebels against the light. I. THEIR BLACK CHARACTER . 1 . They are hostile to the light. The light alluded to is the light of day. The wicked persons spoken of regard that light with aversion, as being unfavourable to the special forms of ungodliness they delight to practise. Distinguished from the previously mentioned sinners who transact their nefarious deeds openly and unblushingly beneath the clear firmament of heaven, these night-birds may be taken,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:13-25
Pictures of secret end unpunished evil-doers. I. THE MURDERER AND THE ADULTERER . ( Job 24:13-17 .) A class of the wicked different from the foregoing is now placed before us; rebels, revolters against the light, who refuse to know anything of the ways of light, and to abide in its paths. These are the "children of darkness," so emphatically contrasted in the New Testament with the "children of light" ( Romans 13:12 ; Ephesians 5:8 , etc.; 1 Thessalonians 5:5 ). Before... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy . The murderer rises at the first glimpse of dawn—the time when mast men sleep most soundly. He cannot go about his wicked business in complete darkness. He has not the courage to attack the great and powerful, who might be well armed and have retainers to defend them, but enters the houses of a comparatively poor class, in which he is less afraid to risk himself. Here, in the night he is as a thief. He has not come into the... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me . There is an analogy between moral and physical light, and between moral and physical darkness. The class of men here spoken of ( Job 24:14-16 ), who have rebelled against moral light ( Job 24:13 ), and refused its ways, and rejected its paths, are no great lovers of physical light. Their deeds of darkness are only suited to be done in the dark, and they wait for the evening twilight or the dusk of dawn... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses . In ancient times, burglary commonly took this form. Windows were few, and high up in the walls; doors were strongly fastened with bolts and bars. But the walls, being of clay, or rubble, or sun-dried brick, were weak and easily penetrable. This was especially the ease with party walls; and if burglars entered an unoccupied house, nothing was easier than to break through the slight partition which separated it from the house next door. The Greek word for... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:17
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death . They hate the morning light. It is associated in their minds with the idea of detection; for when it breaks in upon them unexpectedly in the midst of their ill deeds, detection commonly follows; and detection is a true "shadow of death," for it commonly means the gallows. If one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death; rather, for they know the terrors of the shadow of death ( see the Revised Version). It is a... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 24:13
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 another class of wicked persons - those who perform their deeds in the darkness of the night; and he shows that the same thing is true of them as of those who commit crimes in open day, that God does not interpose directly to punish them. They are suffered to live in prosperity. This should be... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:1-22
Apparent anomalies in the Divine judgment. Job again points to the anomalous conditions of human life—goodness, which has its approval in every breast, and on which, by universal consent of belief, a Divine blessing rests, is nevertheless often overcast with the shadow of calamity; and, on the other hand, evil-doing, which merits only judgment, affliction, and correction, is often found to prosper. To it outward events seem to be favourable. Men sin without let or hindrance. Apparently,... read more