Job 24:18

"For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness."

Key Reflection

For Job's contemporaries, the morning held no hope; it was like thick darkness because these wicked individuals were well acquainted with the terrors of night and its oppressive shadows. In a society where light often symbolized divine favor and protection, such a statement underscores how thoroughly their evil deeds had estranged them from any semblance of righteousness or divine blessing, even as dawn broke.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He is swift as the waters -Noyes renders this, “They are as swift as the skiff upon the waters.” Dr. Good, “Miserable is this man upon the waters.” Wemyss, “Such should be as foam upon the waters.” Le Clerc says that there is scarcely any passage of the Scriptures more obscure than this, and the variety of rendering adopted will show at once the perplexity of expositors. Rosenmuller supposes that the particle of comparison (כk) is to be understood, and that the meaning is, “he is as a light thing upon the waters;” and this probably expresses the true sense.

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