Text -- Job 24:14 (NET)

24:14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 24:14

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.