Job 24:13
“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
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In Context
14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
Job 38:15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
Luke 12:47That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
John 9:39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that 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 →