Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 24:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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Role in This Section
Job 24:13 opens the thought unit with the words “They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in….” Job states “They are of those that rebel against the light” as one poetic claim in Some Evildoers Choose Darkness.
Read It With
- Job 24:13–24:17
Read Job 24:13 with 24:13–24:17. Read alone, “They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job describes murderers, adulterers, and thieves who reject light and treat darkness as concealment.
Why It Needs Context
Job 24:13 depends on 24:13–24:17; isolating “They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Some Evildoers Choose Darkness.”
Read Job 24:13–17 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 24:13–24:17 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Some Evildoers Choose Darkness.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 13. 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Verse 14. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Verse 15. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Verse 16. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Verse 17. 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 24:13–24:17 — Some Evildoers Choose DarknessSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 24:13–24:17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 24:13–24:17
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