Job 24:14

The murderer gets up at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and when night falls he becomes a thief.

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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 people who rebel against the light. They do not want to know its ways, or to stay on its paths.

15The adulterer waits for dusk, saying to himself, ‘No one will see me now,’ and he covers his face.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:8They hide out in ambush in the villages, ready to kill innocent passers-by. They are always on the lookout for their next victim.

Luke 12:39But remember this: if the master knew when a thief was coming, he would keep watch, and not allow his house to be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2You yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like 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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