Verse 12
12. No one will escape, for Jehovah will penetrate the darkest recesses and bring out the guilty to deliver them to the destroyer.
With candles Better, R.V., “with lamps,” or lanterns, such as watchmen carry when they look for criminals.
The men that are settled on their lees Or, as margin R.V., “thickened on their lees.” The figure is taken from wine that has been left undisturbed until it has thickened; it describes the apathy, the spiritual insensibility, of the rich (compare Jeremiah 48:11-12).
Say in their hearts Think within themselves.
Will not do good, neither… evil They refuse to believe that Jehovah has anything to do with the affairs of this world (compare Isaiah 5:18-19; Malachi 2:17). “Those referred to are men who have lived at ease, without trouble or vicissitude in life, and who have therefore sunk down into unfeeling indifference or even into incredulity regarding any interference of a higher power in the affairs of mankind.”
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