Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 24 connects to 10 cross-references. Job asks why the Almighty does not set times of judgment in which the wicked are punished. He catalogs injustices that God apparently tolerates: the wicked move boundary stones, oppress the poor, take widows as pledges, and murderers operate under …
Other Translations
The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
Cross References
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the …
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of …
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes …
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, …
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man …
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would …
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.