Job 24:13

Second half GROSSEST MALEFACTORS AGAINST THE LIGHT AND AGAINST GOD, WHOM ON ACCOUNT OF THE SECRECY OF THEIR CRIMES HEAVEN ALONE CAN PUNISH EVEN THESE ESCAPE FROM ALL EARTHLY RETRIBUTION, BY AN OPPORTUNE DEATH, Job 24:13-25.

First strophe Blackest miscreants rebel against the light and burrow in the night, defying the God who professedly sees in secret, while they say, “No eye shall see me,” 13-17.

13. Those that rebel against the light Job now introduces another class of evildoers, the workers in the dark murderers, thieves, adulterers. He has thus far spoken of the lawless who practice evil in the broad daylight, and those, too, whom law, “as yet unmitigated by the Mosaic code,” may have seemed to shield, such as usurers, tyrants, and rich, heartless employers. He will now speak of greater monsters, those who “have become rebels against the light,” and who undermine all institutions, human and divine. The light of the day is a fit emblem of a higher and purer essence shining within the soul of man. All sin begins in rebellion against the light. Its very essence is hatred of the light. John 3:20. The ways of light it eschews, and its paths it abhors, until the soul, perverted and stunted, becomes one with the darkness. Man makes for himself the moral world wherein he shall dwell. And this, a sky of light or of darkness, has its reflex influences upon the soul. Under these it becomes a child of light, (1 Thessalonians 5:5,) and eventually light itself, (Ephesians 5:8,) or it becomes a “child of the night.” and is in like manner transformed into darkness. Ephesians 5:8.