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Job Chapter 24 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Job 24:14

The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
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BBE Job 24:14

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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DARBY Job 24:14

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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KJV Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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WBT Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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WEB 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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YLT Job 24:14

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy. The murderer rises at the first glimpse of dawn - the time when mast men sleep most soundly. He cannot go about his wicked business in complete darkness. He has not the courage to attack the great and powerful, who might be well armed and have retainers to defend them, but enters the houses of a comparatively poor class, in which he is less afraid to risk himself. Here, in the night he is as a thief. He has not come into the house simply for murder. Theft is his main object. He will not take life unless he is resisted or discovered, and so, in a certain sense, driven to it.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) With the light.--The mention of light as a moral essence suggests its physical analogue, so that by the contrast of the one with the violence done to the other, the moral turpitude of the wrong-doing is heightened. It seems impossible to interpret the light in the former case (Job 24:13) otherwise than morally, and if so, the mention of the "ways thereof" and the "paths thereof" is very remarkable. The order in which these crimes of murder, adultery, and theft are mentioned according, as it does, with that in the Decalogue, is, at all events, suggestive of acquaintance with it.