Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light.He kills the poor and needy.In the night he is like a thief.
New Heart English 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
13"These are of those who rebel against the light.They do not know its ways,nor abide in its paths.
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages.From ambushes, he murders the innocent.AYINHis 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 not have 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 →