Job 24:14 “When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy;…”

Job 24:14

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“murderer”

Psalm 10:8–10 2 Samuel 11:14–17 Ephesians 5:7–11 Micah 2:1 Micah 2:2

Psalm 10:8–10 · BSB

He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

2 Samuel 11:14–17 · BSB

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

Ephesians 5:7–11 · BSB

Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Micah 2:1 · BSB

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Micah 2:2 · BSB

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

“in the night”

1 Thessalonians 5:2 Revelation 3:3 Luke 12:39

1 Thessalonians 5:2 · BSB

For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Revelation 3:3 · BSB

Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

Luke 12:39 · BSB

But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

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