Job 24:13

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

Majority Standard Bible

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

12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:20So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Job 38:15Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Luke 12:47That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.

John 8:31So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

John 9:39Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see 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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