Job 24:14

Before daybreak ¹  the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is ²  like a thief. ³ 

biblegateway Job 24:14

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.

biblegateway Job 24:14

"The murderer arises at dawn; He kills the poor and the needy, And at night he is as a thief.

biblegateway Job 24:14

The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief.

biblegateway Job 24:14

When the sun goes down, the murderer gets up--kills the poor and robs the defenseless.

SABDAweb Job 24:14

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

bibleoremus Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

biblegateway Job 24:14

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

biblegateway Job 24:14

Before daybreak ¹  the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is ²  like a thief. ³ 

¹ tn The text simply has לָאוֹר (la’or, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.

² tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k).

³ sn 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.