Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Updated King James Version

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

13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:8He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.

Luke 12:39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

1 Thessalonians 5:2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes 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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