Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Webster 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
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Luke 12:39And this know, that if the master of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would watch, and not suffer his house to be broken through.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For yourselves know perfectly 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 →