Job 24:13–17

“There are those who rebel against the light,

who are not acquainted with its ways,

and do not stay in its paths.

The murderer rises before it is light,

that he may kill the poor and needy,

and in the night he is like a thief.

The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,

saying, ‘No eye will see me’;

and he veils his face.

In the dark they dig through houses;

by day they shut themselves up;

they do not know the light.

For deep darkness is morning to all of them;

for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

“There are those who rebel against the light,

who do not know its ways

or stay in its paths.

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,

kills the poor and needy,

and in the night steals forth like a thief.

The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;

he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’

and he keeps his face concealed.

In the dark, thieves break into houses,

but by day they shut themselves in;

they want nothing to do with the light.

For all of them, midnight is their morning;

they make friends with the terrors of darkness.

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.

They do not recognize its ways

or stay on its paths.

The murderer rises at dawn

to kill the poor and needy,

and by night he becomes a thief.

The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,

thinking, “No eye will see me,”

and he covers his face.

In the dark they break into houses;

by day they lock themselves in,

never experiencing the light.

For the morning is like darkness to them.

Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

“Wicked people rebel against the light.

They refuse to acknowledge its ways

or stay in its paths.

The murderer rises in the early dawn

to kill the poor and needy;

at night he is a thief.

The adulterer waits for the twilight,

saying, ‘No one will see me then.’

He hides his face so no one will know him.

Thieves break into houses at night

and sleep in the daytime.

They are not acquainted with the light.

The black night is their morning.

They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.

“Those are among the ones rebelling against the light;

they do not recognize his ways,

and they do not stay in his paths.

At dusk the murderer rises;

he kills the needy and the poor,

and in the night he is like a thief.

And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk,

saying, ‘No eye will see me,’

and he places a covering on his face.

He digs through houses in the darkness;

by day they shut themselves in—

they do not know the light

because morning likewise is to them deep darkness;

indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.

They are of those that rebel against the light;

They know not the ways thereof,

Nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer rising with the light

Killeth the poor and needy,

And in the night is as a thief.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,

Saying, No eye shall see me:

And disguiseth his face.

In the dark they dig through houses,

Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime:

They know not the light.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death:

If one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.