Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

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WEBBE

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

BSB

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

KJV

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

ASV

The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

BBE

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

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לָאוֹר la·'or to the light H216 יָקוּם ya·kum he rises H6965 רוֹצֵחַ ro·tze·ach a murderer H7523 יִקְטָל־ yik·tol- he kills H6991 עָנִי 'a·ni [the] poor H6041 וְאֶבְיוֹן ve·'ev·yon and [the] needy H34 וּבַלַּיְלָה u·va·lay·lah and in the night H3915 יְהִי ye·hi he is H1961 כַגַּנָּב kha·ga·nav like (the) thief H1590

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 13–17

See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains those take, who make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it: pains to compass, and then to hide that which will end in death and hell at last. Less pains would mortify and crucify the flesh, and be life and heaven at last. Shame came in with sin, and everlasting shame is at the end of it. See the misery of sinners; they are exposed to continual frights: yet see their folly; they are afraid of coming under the eye of men, but have no dread of God's eye, which is always upon them: they are not afraid of doing things which they are afraid of being known to do.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.