Job 24:16

Ephesians 5:11-13; Exodus 22:2; Exodus 22:3; Ezekiel 12:12; Ezekiel 12:5-7; Job 24:13; Job 38:12; Job 38:13; John 3:20; Matthew 24:43

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
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 considerab...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

they: i.e. burglars.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. In the dark they dig through hou...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. Dig through. Houses in the...
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 an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dig through houses ] Walls of Eastern houses are often made of clay or sun-burnt bricks, which crumble easily: cp. Matthew 6:20 ; RM. The robbers d...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime. — Or, as some understand, they seal ( i.e ., shut) themselves up in the daytime. It is sai...
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...
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 u...
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 p...
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 woun...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime ,.... Which some understand of adulterers last mentioned,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. Ver. 16. In the dark they dig...
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 s...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Present Impunity of Transgressors. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They dig; either, 1. The adulterer last mentioned; although such persons do not use nor need these violent courses to get into the house of the a...
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 suffe...
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 app...
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 ju...
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 prev...
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 ( J...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Hidden Ways of God with Regard to the Wicked
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the dark they dig through houses, the walls of the poorer houses being constructed of dried mud, through which the thief could force his way, whi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — The robber: having on that occasion inserted the mention of the adulterer as one who acted his sin in the same manner as the night — thief d...

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Related Commentaries of Job 24:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 24:16