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Text -- Job 24:14 (NET)

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24:14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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Wesley: Job 24:14 - -- Where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he exercises his cruelty.

Where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he exercises his cruelty.

JFB: Job 24:14 - -- At early dawn, while still dark, when the traveller in the East usually sets out, and the poor laborer to his work; the murderous robber lies in wait ...

At early dawn, while still dark, when the traveller in the East usually sets out, and the poor laborer to his work; the murderous robber lies in wait then (Psa 10:8).

JFB: Job 24:14 - -- Thieves in the East steal while men sleep at night; robbers murder at early dawn. The same man who steals at night, when light dawns not only robs, bu...

Thieves in the East steal while men sleep at night; robbers murder at early dawn. The same man who steals at night, when light dawns not only robs, but murders to escape detection.

Clarke: Job 24:14 - -- The murderer rising with the light - Perhaps the words should be read as Mr. Good has done: - With the daylight ariseth the murderer Poor and needy,...

The murderer rising with the light - Perhaps the words should be read as Mr. Good has done: -

With the daylight ariseth the murderer

Poor and needy, he sheddeth blood

This description is suitable to a highwayman; one who robs in daylight, and who has been impelled by poverty and distress to use this most unlawful and perilous mode to get bread; and for fear of being discovered or taken, commits murder, and thus adds crime to crime

Clarke: Job 24:14 - -- In the night is as a thief - Having been a highwayman in the daytime, he turns footpad or housebreaker by night; and thus goes on from sin to sin. T...

In the night is as a thief - Having been a highwayman in the daytime, he turns footpad or housebreaker by night; and thus goes on from sin to sin. There have been several instances like the case above, where poverty and distress have induced a man to go to the highway and rob, to repair the ruin of himself and family. I shall introduce an authentic story of this kind, which the reader may find at the end of this chapter.

TSK: Job 24:14 - -- murderer : 2Sa 11:14-17; Psa 10:8-10; Mic 2:1, Mic 2:2; Eph 5:7-11 in the night : Luk 12:39; 1Th 5:2; Rev 3:3

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Job 24:14 - -- The murderer - One of the instances, referred to in the previous verse, of those who perform their deeds in darkness. Rising with the ligh...

The murderer - One of the instances, referred to in the previous verse, of those who perform their deeds in darkness.

Rising with the light - Hebrew לאור lā'ôr . Vulgate " Mane primo - in the earliest twilight."The meaning is, that he does it very early; by daybreak. It is not in open day, but at the earliest dawn.

Killeth the poor and needy - Those who are so poor and needy that they are obliged to rise early and go forth to their toil. There is a double aggravation - the crime of murder itself, and the fact that it is committed on those who are under a necessity of going forth at that early hour to their labor.

And in the night is as a thief - The same man. Theft is usually committed under cover of the night. The idea of Job is, that though these crimes cannot escape the notice of God, yet that he does not interpose to punish those who committed them. A striking incidental illustration of the fact stated here, occurred in the journey of Messrs. Robinson and Smith, on their way from Akabah to Jerusalem. After retiring to rest one night, they were aroused by a sudden noise; and they apprehended attack by robbers. "Our Arabs,"says Dr. R. "were evidently alarmed. They said, if thieves, "they would steal upon us at midnight; if robbers they would come down upon towards morning."Bibl. Research. i. 270. It would seem, therefore, that there was some settled time or order in which they are accustomed to commit their various depredations.

Poole: Job 24:14 - -- With the light as soon as the light appears, using no less diligence in his wicked practices, than labourers do in their honest and daily employments...

With the light as soon as the light appears, using no less diligence in his wicked practices, than labourers do in their honest and daily employments.

Killeth the poor and needy where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he exerciseth his cruelty.

Is as a thief i.e. he is really a thief; the particle as being oft used to express, not the resemblance but the truth of the thing, as Num 11:1 Deu 9:10 Hos 4:4 Hos 5:10 Joh 1:14 . In the night they rob men secretly and cunningly, as in the day-time they do it more openly and avowedly.

Haydock: Job 24:14 - -- Thief. Oppressing the poor, (Ven. Bede) and taking away their bread, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 25.

Thief. Oppressing the poor, (Ven. Bede) and taking away their bread, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 25.

Gill: Job 24:14 - -- The murderer rising with the light,.... The light of the morning, before the sun is risen, about the time the early traveller is set out on his journe...

The murderer rising with the light,.... The light of the morning, before the sun is risen, about the time the early traveller is set out on his journey, and men go to distant markets to buy and sell goods, and the poor labourer goes forth to his work; then is the time for one that is used to commit robbery and murder to rise from his bed, or from his lurking place, in a cave or a thicket, where he has lain all night, in order to meet with the above persons: and so

killeth the poor and needy; takes away from them the little they have, whether money or provisions, and kills them because they have no more, and that they may not be evidence against him; it may be meant of the poor saints and people of God, whom the wicked slay out of hatred to them:

and in the night is as a thief; kills privately, secretly, at an unawares, as the thief does his work; or the "as" here is not a note of similitude or likeness, but of reality and truth; and so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "and in the night he will be as a thief"; in the morning he is a robber on the highway, and a murderer; all the day he is in his lurking place, in some haunt or another, sleeping or carousing; and when the night comes on, then he acts the part of a thief; in the morning he not only robs, but murders, that he may not be detected; at night he only steals, and not kills, because men are asleep, and see him not.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 24:14 The point is that he is like a thief in that he works during the night, just before the daylight, when the advantage is all his and the victim is most...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Job 24:1-25 - --1 Wickedness often goes unpunished.17 There is a secret judgment for the wicked.

MHCC: Job 24:13-17 - --See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains th...

Matthew Henry: Job 24:13-17 - -- These verses describe another sort of sinners who therefore go unpunished, because they go undiscovered. They rebel against the light, Job 24:13...

Keil-Delitzsch: Job 24:13-15 - -- 13 Others are those that rebel against the light, They will know nothing of its ways, And abide not in its paths. 14 The murderer riseth up at da...

Constable: Job 22:1--27:23 - --D. The Third cycle of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends chs. 22-27 In round one of the debate J...

Constable: Job 23:1--24:25 - --2. Job's third reply to Eliphaz chs. 23-24 Job ignored Eliphaz's groundless charges of sin tempo...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Job (Book Introduction) JOB A REAL PERSON.--It has been supposed by some that the book of Job is an allegory, not a real narrative, on account of the artificial character of ...

JFB: Job (Outline) THE HOLINESS OF JOB, HIS WEALTH, &c. (Job 1:1-5) SATAN, APPEARING BEFORE GOD, FALSELY ACCUSES JOB. (Job 1:6-12) SATAN FURTHER TEMPTS JOB. (Job 2:1-8)...

TSK: Job (Book Introduction) A large aquatic animal, perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, the exact meaning is unknown. Some think this to be a crocodile but from the desc...

TSK: Job 24 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Job 24:1, Wickedness often goes unpunished; Job 24:17, There is a secret judgment for the wicked.

Poole: Job 24 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 24 The practice and prosperity of the wicked, Job 24:1-16 . Their punishment and curse in the end, Job 24:17-25 . The sense of the words ...

MHCC: Job (Book Introduction) This book is so called from Job, whose prosperity, afflictions, and restoration, are here recorded. He lived soon after Abraham, or perhaps before tha...

MHCC: Job 24 (Chapter Introduction) (Job 24:1-12) Wickedness often unpunished. (Job 24:13-17) The wicked shun the light. (Job 24:18-25) Judgements for the wicked.

Matthew Henry: Job (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Job This book of Job stands by itself, is not connected with any other, and is therefore to...

Matthew Henry: Job 24 (Chapter Introduction) Job having by his complaints in the foregoing chapter given vent to his passion, and thereby gained some ease, breaks them off abruptly, and now ap...

Constable: Job (Book Introduction) Introduction Title This book, like many others in the Old Testament, got its name from...

Constable: Job (Outline) Outline I. Prologue chs. 1-2 A. Job's character 1:1-5 B. Job's calamitie...

Constable: Job Job Bibliography Andersen, Francis I. Job. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series. Leicester, Eng. and Downe...

Haydock: Job (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF JOB. INTRODUCTION. This Book takes its name from the holy man, of whom it treats; who, according to the more probable opinion, was ...

Gill: Job (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB This book, in the Hebrew copies, generally goes by this name, from Job, who is however the subject, if not the writer of it. In...

Gill: Job 24 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB 24 This chapter contains the second part of Job's answer to the last discourse of Eliphaz, in which he shows that wicked men, t...

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