Job 24:14
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Majority Standard Bible
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
13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Luke 12:39But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware 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 →