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Job 24:14

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24:14Before daybreak23 the murderer rises up;

he kills the poor and the needy;

in the night he is24 like a thief.25

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Footnotes

  1. 23 The text simply has לָאוֹר (la’or, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.
  2. 24 In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see §109.k).
  3. 25 The point is that he is like a thief in that he works during the night, just before the daylight, when the advantage is all his and the victim is most vulnerable.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The murderer rises before it is light,

that he may kill the poor and needy,

and in the night he is like a thief.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,

kills the poor and needy,

and in the night steals forth like a thief.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The murderer rises at dawn

to kill the poor and needy,

and by night he becomes a thief.

NLTNew Living Translation

The murderer rises in the early dawn

to kill the poor and needy;

at night he is a thief.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

At dusk the murderer rises;

he kills the needy and the poor,

and in the night he is like a thief.

KJV 1900King James Version

The murderer rising with the light

Killeth the poor and needy,

And in the night is as a thief.