Job 24:13

They have been those rebelling against light, || They have not discerned His ways, || Nor abided in His paths.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Men groan because of enmity, || And the soul of pierced ones cries, || And God does not give praise.

14The murderer rises at the light, || He slays the poor and needy, || And in the night he is as a thief.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:20and she rises in the middle of the night, and takes my son from beside me—and your handmaid is asleep—and lays him in her bosom, and she has laid her dead son in my bosom;

Job 24:16He has dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, || They have not known light.

Job 38:15And their light is withheld from the wicked, || And the arm lifted up is broken.

Luke 12:47And that servant, who having known his lord’s will, and having not prepared, nor having gone according to his will, will be beaten with many stripes,

John 8:31Jesus, therefore, said to the Jews who believed in Him, “If you may remain in My word, you are truly My disciples,

John 9:39And Jesus said, “I came to this world for judgment, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may 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 →

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