Job 24:14
Good News Translation
At dawn the murderer gets up and goes out to kill the poor, and at night he steals.

New Revised Standard Version
The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

Contemporary English Version
Soon after sunset they murder the poor and the needy, and at night they steal.

New American Bible
When there is no light the murderer rises, to kill the poor and needy; in the night he acts like a thief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.

murderer

2 Samuel 11:14-17 And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias, . . .

Psalm 10:8-10 He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent. . . .

Micah 2:1,2 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee. . . .

Ephesians 5:7-11 Be ye not therefore partakers with them. . . .

in the night

Luke 12:39 But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night.

Revelation 3:3 Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
13They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. 14The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.15The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.…
Cross References
Job 24:4
They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.

Job 24:13
They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.

Psalm 10:8
He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Micah 2:1
Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Job 24:13
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