Job 24:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. ”

Job 24:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death - They dread the light as one does usually the deepest darkness. The morning or light would reveal their deeds of wickedness, and they there...
Job 24:17 - 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 24:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

if one know them. See translation below.
Job 24:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 24:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For the morning, &c.— Surely the morning was to him altogether the shadow of death; because he saw before his eyes the terrors of the shadow of death. In this and the next verse, says Mr. Hea...
Job 24:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. They shrink from the "morning" light, as much as other men do from the...
Job 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death ,.... It is as disagreeable, and as hateful, and as terrible to them as the grossest and thickest darkness can be to others. The word יחדו is...
Job 24:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death. Ver. 17. For the morning is unto them as the shadow of death ] i.e....
Job 24:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, i...
Job 24:17 - 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 24:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Present Impunity of Transgressors. B. C. 1520. 13 They are of those that rebel against...
Job 24:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As the shadow of death, i.e. terrible and hateful, because it both discovers them and hinders their practices. If they are brought to light or discovered, they are overwhelmed with deadly horrors a...
Job 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - 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 24:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked
Job 24:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:10 ; 2 Corinthians 5:11 ; Jeremiah 2:26 ; Job 3:5 ; Psalms 73:18 ; Psalms 73:19 ; Revelation 6:16 ; Revelation 6:17
Job 24:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Is — Terrible and hateful.

Job 24:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 24:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 24:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 24:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 24:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 24:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 24:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 24:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 24:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 24:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 24:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 24:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 24:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 24:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 24:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 24:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 24:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 24:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 24:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 24:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 24:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 24:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes