Verse 14
Job 24:14
World English Bible, British Edition
14
The murderer rises with the light.
He kills the poor and needy.
In the night he is like a thief.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ/א֡וֹר יָ֘ק֤וּם רוֹצֵ֗חַ יִֽקְטָל עָנִ֥י וְ/אֶבְי֑וֹן וּ֝/בַ/לַּ֗יְלָה יְהִ֣י כַ/גַּנָּֽב
English Translation
The murderer will rise for light; he will kill the poor and needy, and at night he will be like a thief.
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Chapter 24 Context
1
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty?
Why don’t those who know him see his days?
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2
There are people who remove the landmarks.
They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless,
and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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4
They turn the needy out of the way.
The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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5
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food.
The w...
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6
They cut their food in the field.
They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
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7
They lie all night naked without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
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8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
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9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast,
and take a pledge of the poor,
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10
so that they go around naked without clothing.
Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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11
They make oil within the walls of these men.
They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
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12
From out of the populous city, men groan.
The soul of the wounded cries out,
yet God (Elohim) doesn’...
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13
“These are of those who rebel against the light.
They don’t know its ways,
nor stay in its paths.
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14
The murderer rises with the light.
He kills the poor and needy.
In the night he is like a thief.
15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
He disguises his...
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16
In the dark they dig through houses.
They shut themselves up in the daytime.
They don’t know the lig...
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17
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness,
for they know the terrors of the thick darkne...
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18
“They are foam on the surface of the waters.
Their portion is cursed in the earth.
They don’t turn i...
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19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
so does Sheol those who have sinned.
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20
The womb will forget him.
The worm will feed sweetly on him.
He will be no more remembered.
Unrighte...
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21
He devours the barren who don’t bear.
He shows no kindness to the widow.
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22
Yet God (Elohim) preserves the mighty by his power.
He rises up who has no assurance of life.
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23
God (Elohim) gives them security, and they rest in it.
His eyes are on their ways.
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24
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone.
Yes, they are brought low, they are taken o...
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25
If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar,
and make my speech worth nothing?”
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