约伯记 24:14-16 CUVS

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 24:14

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 earliest twilight.” The meaning is, that he does it very early; by daybreak. It is not in open day, but at the earliest dawn.Killeth the poor and needy - Those who are so poor and needy that they are obliged to rise early and go forth to their toil. There is a double aggravation - the crime of murder... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 24:15

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight; - compare the description in Proverbs 7:8-9, “He went the way to her house; in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night.”And disguiseth his face - Margin, “setteth his face in secret.” The meaning is, that he put a mask on his face, lest he should be recognized. So Juvenal, Sat. viii. 144, as quoted by Noyes:- si nocturnus adulterTempora Santonico velas adoperta cucullo.These deeds of wickedness were then performed in the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 24:16

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 here referred to are robbers, who conceal themselves by day, and who at night secretly enter houses for plunder. The phrase “dig through” probably has reference to the fact that houses were made of clay, or of bricks dried in the sun - a species of mud cottages, and whose walls, therefore, could be... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 24:14-15

Job 24:14-15. 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 Where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he exerciseth his cruelty. And in the night is as a thief He is really a thief; the particle as being often used to express, not the resemblance, but the truth, of the thing. In the night they rob men secretly and cunningly,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 24:16-17

Job 24:16-17. 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, 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 the latter again: which they had marked for themselves Distinguishing, by some secret mark, the house of some rich man which they intended to rob, and the part... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 24:1-25

Job’s reply to Eliphaz (23:1-24:25)Again Job says that he is not rebelling against God or running away from him as his friends claim. On the contrary he wants to meet God, so that he can present his case to him and listen to God’s answer (23:1-5). He is confident that God will declare him innocent of the charges people have made against him (6-7).No matter where Job has searched for God, he has not found him. He cannot see God, but God can see him. God knows he is upright, and one day, when... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:13-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 24:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 24:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 24:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 24:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 24:14-15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 24:16-17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 24:1-25

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