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24:14 Before daybreak <0216> the murderer <07523> rises <06965> up; he kills <06991> the poor <06041> and the needy <034>; in the night <03915> he is like a thief <01590>. 24:15 And the eye <05869> of the adulterer <05003> watches <08104> for the twilight <05399>, thinking <0559>, ‘No <03808> eye <05869> can see <07789> me,’ and covers <07760> his face <06440> with a mask <05643>. 24:16 In the dark <02822> the robber breaks into <02864> houses <01004>, but by day <03119> they shut <02856> themselves in; they do not <03808> know <03045> the light <0216>. 24:17 For <03588> all of them <03162>, the morning <01242> is to them like deep darkness <06757>; they are friends <05234> with the terrors <01091> of darkness <06757>. 24:18 “You say, ‘He is <01931> foam <07031> on <05921> the face <06440> of the waters <04325>; their portion <02513> of the land <0776> is cursed <07043> so that no <03808> one goes <01870> <06437> to their vineyard <03754>. 24:19 The drought <06723> as well as <01571> the heat <02527> carry away <01497> the melted <04325> snow <07950>; so the grave <07585> takes away those who have sinned <02398>. 24:20 The womb <07358> forgets <07911> him, the worm <07415> feasts <04988> on him, no <03808> longer <05750> will he be remembered <02142>. Like a tree <06086>, wickedness <05766> will be broken down <07665>. 24:21 He preys <07462> on the barren <06135> and childless <03205> <03808> woman, and does not <03808> treat <03190> the widow <0490> well <03190>. 24:22 But God drags off <04900> the mighty <047> by his power <03581>; when God rises up <06965> against him, he has no <03808> faith <0539> in his life <02416>. 24:23 God may let <05414> them rest <08172> in a feeling of security <0983>, but he is constantly watching <05921> <05869> all their ways <01870>. 24:24 They are exalted <07426> for a little <04592> while, and then they are gone <0369>, they are brought low <04355> like all <03605> others, and gathered in <07092>, and like a head <07218> of grain <07641> they are cut off <05243>.’ 24:25 “If <0518> this is not <03808> so, who <04310> can prove me a liar <03576> and reduce <07760> my words <04405> to nothing <0408>?”

• Job 24:1-25 -- The Apparent Indifference of God

• WORM

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars ...
  [smith] the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas , which occurs in (Isaiah 51:18) probably denotes some particular species of moth, whose larva is injurious to wool. Rimmah , (Exodus 16:20) points evi...
  

• TWILIGHT

  [isbe] TWILIGHT - twi'-lit (nesheph): The twilight of Palestine is of short duration, owing to the low latitude, there being scarcely more than an hour between sunset and complete darkness. It is a distinct boundary between daytime...
  

• Snow

  [ebd] Common in Palestine in winter (Ps. 147:16). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers (Job 24:19; Ps. 51:...
  

• SHADOW OF DEATH

  [isbe] SHADOW OF DEATH - (tsalmaweth): The Hebrew word translated "shadow of death" is used poetically for thick darkness (Job 3:5), as descriptive of Sheol (Job 10:21 f; 12:22; 38:17); figuratively of deep distress (Job 12:22; 16:...
  

• PROVE

  [isbe] PROVE - proov (bachan, nacah; dokimazo, peirazo): Means (1) to test or try; (2) to establish, demonstrate; (3) to find by experience. It is for the most part in the first (original) sense that the word is found in Scripture....
  

• POOR

  [isbe] POOR - poor ('ebhyon, dal, `ani, rush; ptochos): I. In the Old Testament. The poor have great prominence in the Bible; it is said, indeed, that there should be no poor among the Hebrews because Yahweh should so greatly bless...
  

• NOTHING

  [isbe] NOTHING - nuth'-ing (lo', lo' @me'umah, etc.; medeis, oudeis): "Nothing" is represented by various words and phrases, often with lo', which is properly a substantive with the meaning of "nothing." Most frequently we have lo'...
  

• MURDER

  [isbe] MURDER - 1. Terms: mur'-der (haragh, "to smite," "destroy," "kill," "slay" (Ps 10:8; Hos 9:13 AV]), ratsach, "to dash to pieces," "kill," especially with premeditation (Nu 35:16 and frequently; Job 24:14; Ps 94:6; Jer 7:9; H...
  

• LIGHT

  [isbe] LIGHT - lit ('or, ma'or; phos; many other words): 1. Origin of Light 2. A Comprehensive Term (1) Natural Light (2) Artificial Light (3) Miraculous Light (4) Mental, Moral, Spiritual Light 3. An Attribute of Holiness (1) God ...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• JOB, BOOK OF

  [isbe] JOB, BOOK OF - || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Place in the Canon 2. Rank and Readers II. THE LITERARY FRAMEWORK 1. Setting of Time, Place and Scene 2. Characters and Personality 3. Form and Style III. THE COURSE OF THE STORY A) To Jo...
  

• Homicide

  [nave] HOMICIDE. Accidental Ex. 21:13, 28-32; Num. 35:11-15, 22-28, 32 Deut. 4:41-43; 19:1-10. Josh. 20:1-9 Felonious or Murder: Gen. 4:9-11 v. 12.; Gen. 9:5, 6; Gen. 49:7; Ex. 20:13 Deut. 5:17; Rom. 13:9. Ex. 21:29-32; Num. 35...
  

• HEAT

  [isbe] HEAT - het (chom, horebh, "drought," Job 30:30; Isa 4:6; 25:4; Jer 36:30; sharabh, Isa 49:10, translated in the Revised Version margin "mirage"; zestos, "fervent," Rev 3:15, therme, Acts 28:3, kauma, Rev 7:16, kauson, Mt 20:...
  

• FORGET; FORGETFUL

  [isbe] FORGET; FORGETFUL - for-get', for-get'-ful (shakhach; epilanthanomai): "Forget" is to fail to hold in mind, and the forgetfulness may be either innocent or blameworthy. In the Old Testament the word is most frequently used a...
  

• Eye

  [ebd] (Heb. 'ain, meaning "flowing"), applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour (Num. 11:7; R.V., "appearance," marg. "eye"); (3) the face (Ex. 10:5, 15; Num. 22:5, 11), in Num. 14:14, "face to face" (R.V. marg., "eye t...
  

• EXALT

  [isbe] EXALT - eg-zolt' (rum, gabhah (mappiq he), nasa'; hupsoo): The Hebrew word most often translated "exalt," "exalted," is rum; "to lift up," "to be or become high." It is used with reference to both God and man, e.g. Ex 15:2, ...
  

• Dwell

  [ebd] Tents were in primitive times the common dwellings of men. Houses were afterwards built, the walls of which were frequently of mud (Job 24:16; Matt. 6:19, 20) or of sun-dried bricks. God "dwells in light" (1 Tim. 6:16; 1 Joh...
  

• DIG

  [isbe] DIG - (qur, "to dig", chathar; diorusso, "to dig through"): "I have digged (dug) and drunk strange waters" (2 Ki 19:24). In his campaigns on foreign soil, where the enemy had stopped up the watersprings, Sennacherib would at...
  

• CONSUME

  [isbe] CONSUME - kon-sum' (akhal, kalah, tamam; analisko): In Old Testament 'akhal ("to eat," "devour") occurs very frequently, and is translated "consumed" (Gen 31:40; Ex 15:7; Ps 78:63, etc.); kalah ("to finish") is also frequent...
  

• ASSASSINATION

  [isbe] ASSASSINATION - a-sas-i-na'-shun. 1. Meaning of the Term: The language of Scripture distinguishes less clearly than the modern juridical between assassination and murder. "Murderer" = rotseach (Nu 35:16-19,21,30,31; 2 Ki 6:3...
  

• Men Rebel against the Light

  

• Does the Bible speak more about Hell than Heaven?
  I've heard and read the same statement a number of times, but have never troubled myself to look up each passage. I'm not surprised that looking up "heaven" and "hell" in a concordance would give you contradictory results. T...

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