13 “These are of those who rebel against the light.
They don’t know its ways,
nor abide in its paths. 14 The murderer rises with the light.
He kills the poor and needy.
In the night he is like a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’
He disguises his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses.
They shut themselves up in the daytime.
They don’t know the light. 17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness,
for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 24:13-17
Commentary on Job 24:13-17
(Read 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 those take, who make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it: pains to compass, and then to hide that which will end in death and hell at last. Less pains would mortify and crucify the flesh, and be life and heaven at last. Shame came in with sin, and everlasting shame is at the end of it. See the misery of sinners; they are exposed to continual frights: yet see their folly; they are afraid of coming under the eye of men, but have no dread of God's eye, which is always upon them: they are not afraid of doing things which they are afraid of being known to do.