Job 24:13
These are people who rebel against the light. They do not want to know its ways, or to stay on its paths.
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In Context
12In the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry for help, but God ignores their prayers.
14The murderer gets up at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and when night falls he becomes a thief.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while I was sleeping. She lay him close beside her to cuddle him, and she lay her dead son close beside me.
Job 24:16Thieves break into houses during the night and they sleep during the day. They don't even know what the light is like!
Job 38:15The ‘light’ of the wicked is taken away from them; their acts of violence are stopped.
Luke 12:47That servant who knew what his master wanted and yet didn't get ready or follow his instructions, will be beaten severely;
John 8:31Then Jesus said to those Jews who trusted in him, “If you follow my teaching then you really are my disciples.
John 9:39Then Jesus told him, “I've come into the world to bring judgment so that those who are blind may see, and those who see will become blind.”
Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13
Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →