Job 24:13

¹¹ They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

¹² From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

¹⁴ When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
KJV: They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
WEB: “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
ASV: These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
DARBY: There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
BLB: They are among those rebelling against the light; they do not recognize its ways, and they do not dwell in its paths.

ÅB: Andre er fiender av lyset; de kjenner ikke dets veier og holder seg ikke på dets stier.
OTB: Andre har vært med dem som gjør opprør mot lyset;
De vil ikke kjenne dets veier,
Og blir ikke på dets stier.
B1930: Andre er fiender av lyset; de kjenner ikke dets veier og holder sig ikke på dets stier.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

John 3:19–20
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
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Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
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Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
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2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
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1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
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John 9:39–41
Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
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2 Peter 2:20–22
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
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James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
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