Ayub 24:13

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Mereka itu adalah di antara orang yang benci akan terang; tiada diketahuinya akan jalan-jalannya dan tiada mereka itu tetap pada lorong-lorongnya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ada lagi golongan yang memusuhi terang, yang tidak mengenal jalannya dan tidak tetap tinggal pada lintasannya.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ada lagi golongan yang memusuhi terang, yang tidak mengenal jalannya dan tidak tetap tinggal pada lintasannya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rebel: Luke 12:47, Luke 12:48, John 3:19, John 3:20, John 9:39-41, John 15:22-24, Romans 1:32, Romans 2:17-24, James 4:17

they know: Proverbs 4:19, John 12:35, John 12:40, Romans 3:11-17, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

nor abide: Job 23:11, Job 23:12, John 8:31, John 8:44, John 15:6, 2 Peter 2:20-22, 1 John 2:19, Jude 1:6

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 28:8 - disguised 1 Kings 3:20 - midnight Nehemiah 6:10 - in the night Job 24:16 - they know Job 30:3 - solitary Job 38:13 - the wicked Psalms 104:22 - General Proverbs 2:13 - walk Proverbs 7:9 - the twilight Isaiah 29:15 - and their works Jeremiah 23:24 - hide Ezekiel 8:12 - in the John 1:5 - General John 13:30 - it Romans 2:8 - and do not Ephesians 5:11 - works

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They are of those that rebel against the light,.... The light of nature, acting contrary to the dictates of their own consciences, in being guilty of the inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty they were chargeable with in the above instances; or the light of the law, as the Targum; though as yet the law of the ten commandments was not in being; or however was not known to these persons; or against God himself, who is light, and in him no darkness at all, is clothed with it, and is the Father of lights unto his creatures, the Light of lights, and the Light of the world, from whom all light, natural, spiritual, and eternal, springs, 1 John 1:5; which is the sense of most of the Jewish commentators s; and every sin is a rebellion against God, and betrays the enmity of the carnal mind to him, is an act of hostility against him, and shows men to be enemies in their minds to him:

they know not the ways thereof; the ways of light, but prefer the ways of darkness to them; or the ways of God, the ways of his commandments, which he has prescribed for men, and directed them to walk in; these they know not, are wilfully ignorant of, desire not the knowledge of them, and will be at no pains to get any acquaintance with them; or they approve not of them, they are not pleasing to them, and they choose not to walk in them:

nor abide in the paths thereof; if at any time they are got into the paths of light, truth, and righteousness, or in the ways of God's commandments, and do a few good actions, they do not continue therein, but quickly go out of the way again, leave the paths of righteousness to walk in the ways of darkness, Proverbs 2:13. Some interpreters understand these words entirely of natural light, and of men who are like owls and bats that flee from the light, who are authors of the works of darkness, and do what they do in the dark secretly, and hate the light, and do not choose to come unto it, that their deeds may not be reproved; and so now Job enters upon the account of another set of men different from the former, who did what they did openly, in the face of the sun, and before all men; but these he is now about to describe are such who commit iniquity secretly and privately, and instances in the murderer adulterer, and thief, in Job 24:14.

s Aben Ezra, Ben Gersom, Sephorno, Bar Tzemach.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They are of those that rebel against the light - That is, they hate the light: compare John 3:20. It is unpleasant to them, and they perform their deeds in the night. Job here commences a reference to another class of wicked persons - those who perform their deeds in the darkness of the night; and he shows that the same thing is true of them as of those who commit crimes in open day, that God does not interpose directly to punish them. They are suffered to live in prosperity. This should be rendered, “Others hate the light;” or, “There are those also who are rebellious against the light.” There is great force in the declaration, that those who perform deeds of wickedness in the night are “rebels” against the light of day.

They know not the ways thereof - They do not see it. They work in the night.

Nor abide in the paths thereof - In the paths that the light makes. They seek out paths on which the light does not shine.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:13. They - rebel against the light — Speaking of wicked men. They rebel against the light of God in their consciences, and his light in his word. They are tyrants in grain, and care neither for God nor the poor. They know not the ways thereof - they will not learn their duty to God or man. Nor abide in the paths thereof - if brought at any time to a better mind, they speedily relapse; and are steady only in cruelty and mischief. This is the character of the oppressors of suffering humanity, and of sinners audacious and hardened.

This whole verse Mr. Good translates in the following manner: -

They are indignant of the light;

They respect not its progress;

And will not return to its paths.

They hate good; they regard not its operation; they go out of the way of righteousness, and refuse to return.