Job 24:13-15

24:13 There are those ¹  who rebel against the light;

they do not know its ways

and they do not stay on its paths.

24:14 Before daybreak ²  the murderer rises up;

he kills the poor and the needy;

in the night he is ³  like a thief. ⁴ 

24:15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight,

thinking, ⁵  ‘No eye can see me,’

and covers his face with a mask.

[24:13]  ¹ tn Heb “They are among those who.”

[24:14]  ² tn The text simply has לָאוֹר (la’or, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.

[24:14]  ³ tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k).

[24:14]  ⁴ 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.

[24:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”