Job 24:14

With the light ariseth the murderer; He killeth the poor and needy; In the night he is as 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

13Others hate the light; They know not its ways, And abide not in its paths.

15The eye of the adulterer watcheth for the twilight; He saith, “No eye will see me,” And putteth a mask upon his face.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed upon the poor.

Luke 12:39And be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

1 Thessalonians 5:2for ye yourselves know full well, that the day of the Lord so cometh 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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