Job 24:14 · KJV
“The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.”
— Job 24:14
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth {his} face. {disguiseth...: Heb. setteth his face in secret}
Job 24 — Context
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly {to them}.
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth {his} face. {disguiseth...: Heb. setteth his face in secret}
16In the dark they dig through houses, {which} they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Cross References
Psalms 10:8-10
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. {are...: Heb. hide themselves}
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Luke 12:39
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Ephesians 5:7-11
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
2 Samuel 11:14-17
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent {it} by the hand of Uriah.