Job 24:14

But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: 1 And in the night one will be as a thief: 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

13Why then has he not visited these? 1 Forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, 1 And they knew not the way of righteousness, 1 Neither have they walked in their appointed paths? 1

15And the eye of the adulterer has watched for the darkness, 1 Saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face. 1

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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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