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For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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An Inverted Reality
Commentators explain that for the wicked, reality is turned upside down. They dread the morning light, which represents exposure and truth, as much as others fear the deepest darkness. Scholars like Barnes and Gill note that while others find the night terrifying, these individuals are 'familiar' with it, treating the darkness as their ally and place of security for their evil deeds.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death - They dread the light as one usually does the deepest darkness. The morning…
19th Century
Baptist
These are the men who plunder secretly, who rob, yet cannot bear to be known as thieves.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death It is as disagreeable, and as hateful, and as terrible to t…
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See what care and pains wicked men take to achieve their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding chapter, Job argued that he had not been punished because of wickedness, as Eliphaz had asserted (Job 22:5). Now, he w…
