Job 24:13

“They are of those that rebel against the light, etc.] 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, (<620105>1 John 1:5 <590117>James 1:17 <430812> John 8:12 9:5);…”

“So far as to openly committed sins; now, those done in the dark. Translate: "There are those among them (the wicked) who rebel," &c. light--both literal and figurative (Joh 3:19-20; Pro 2:13). paths thereof--places where the light shines.”

“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…”

“Light - As well the light of reason and conscience, as the light of Divine revelation, which was then in good measure imparted to the people of God, and shortly after committed to writing. Know not - They do not approve, nor love, or chuse them. Job 24:14”

“rebel: Luk 12:47, Luk 12:48; Joh 3:19, Joh 3:20, Joh 9:39-41, Joh 15:22-24; Rom 1:32, Rom 2:17-24; Jam 4:17 they know: Pro 4:19; Joh 12:35, Joh 12:40; Rom 3:11-17; Th2 2:10-12 nor abide: Job 23:11, Job 23:12; Joh 8:31, Joh 8:44, Joh 15:6; Pe2 2:20-22; Jo1 2:19; Jde 1:6 Job 24:14”

“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 dawn, He slayeth the sufferer and the poor, And in the night he acteth like a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watcheth for the twilight; He thinks: "no eye shall recognise me," And he putteth a veil before his face. With המּה begins a new turn in the description of the moral confusion which has escaped God's observation; it is to be translated neither as retrospective, "since they" (Ewald), nor as distinctive, "they even" (Bttch.), i.e., the powerful in distinction from the oppressed, but "those" (for המה corresponds to our use of "those," אלּה…”