Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

In Context

13These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:8He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.

Luke 12:39But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

Matthew Henry on Job 24:14-18

Present Impunity of Transgressors. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to… Read the whole commentary →

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