Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
World English Bible Classic
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
13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Luke 12:39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes 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 →