Job 24:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. ”

Job 24:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 refer...
Job 24:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Job 24:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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, con...
Job 24:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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) consequent ignoranc...
Job 24:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 mi...
Job 24:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. They - rebel against the light - Speaking of wicked men. They rebel against the light o...
Job 24:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Job 24:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 - boundar...
Job 24:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 unpunishe...
Job 24:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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.).
Job 24:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again to...
Job 24:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

not Here, but Hereafter Job 24:1-25 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 t...
Job 24:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 stil...
Job 24:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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....
Job 24:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 wer...
Job 24:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 o...
Job 24:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 th...
Job 24:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 24:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Present Impunity of Transgressors. B. C. 1520. 13 They are of those that rebel against...
Job 24:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 t...
Job 24:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 s...
Job 24:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 24:2-4 . Some...
Job 24:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 h...
Job 24:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

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. Amongs...
Job 24:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked, whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail ( Job 24:2-18 ). A single note of perplexity ( Job 24...
Job 24:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked
Job 24:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:19 ; 2 Peter 2:20-22 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 ; James 4:17 ; Job 23:11 ; Job 23:12 ; John 12:35 ; John 12:40 ; John 15:22-24 ; John 15:6 ; John 3:19 ; John 3:20 ; John 8:31 ;...
Job 24:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

Job 24:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 24:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 24:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 24:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Job 24:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 24:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 24:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 24:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 24:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 24:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 24:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 24:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 24:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 24:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 24:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 24:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 24:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 24:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 24:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 24:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 24:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 24:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 24:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes