Job 24 · Verse 14

Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 24:14, King James Version

Job 24:14 in other translations

BSBWhen daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
WEBThe murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
ASVThe murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
YLTAt the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
DARBYThe murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
BBEHe who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
WebsterThe murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

What does Job 24:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25

2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The murderer rising with the light - Perhaps the words should be read as Mr. Good has done: - With the daylight ariseth the murderer; Poor and needy, he sheddeth blood. This description is suitable to a highwayman; one who robs in daylight, and who has been impelled by poverty and distress to use this most unlawful and perilous mode to get bread; and for fear of being discovered or taken, commits murder, and thus adds crime to crime. In the night is as a thief - Having been a highwayman in the daytime, he turns footpad or housebreaker by night; and thus goes on from sin to sin. There have been several instances like the case above, where poverty and distress have induced a man to go to the highway and rob, to repair the ruin of himself and family. I shall introduce an authentic story of this kind, which the reader may find at the end of this chapter.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 24:13-17

See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains those take, who make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it: pains to compass, and then to hide that which will end in death and hell at last. Less pains would mortify and crucify the flesh, and be life and heaven at last. Shame came in with sin, and…

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Job 24:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לָא֡וֹרla.'orto the lightH216
יָ֘ק֤וּםya.Kumhe risesH6965
רוֹצֵ֗חַro.Tze.acha murdererH7523
יִֽקְטָל\־yik.tol-he killsH6991
עָנִ֥י'a.Ni[the] poorH6041
וְאֶבְי֑וֹןve.'ev.Yonand [the] needyH34
וּ֝בַלַּ֗יְלָהu.va.Lay.lahand in the nightH3915
יְהִ֣יye.Hihe isH1961
כַגַּנָּֽב\׃kha.ga.Navlike <the> thiefH1590

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 24:14

  • 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. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • 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.

  • 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. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • Ephesians 5:7-11

    Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. …

  • 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.

  • 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. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
murderer.
2Sa 11:14-17; Ps 10:8-10; Mic 2:1,2; Eph 5:7-11
in the night.
Lu 12:39; 1Th 5:2; Re 3:3

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Context

  • Job 24:13

    They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

  • Job 24:14

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

  • Job 24:15

    The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

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Job 24:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		A la luz se levanta el matador, mata al pobre y al necesitado, y de noche es como ladrón.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Le meurtrier se lève avec la lumière, il tue le malheureux et le pauvre, et la nuit il est comme le voleur.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Mit dem Lichte steht der Mörder auf, tötet den Elenden und den Dürftigen; und des Nachts ist er dem Diebe gleich.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Mane primo consurgit homicida; interficit egenum et pauperem: per noctem vero erit quasi fur.