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Job 24:14
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his companions while cataloging the unchecked wickedness that defies divine judgment.
The words — רוֹצֵחַ (ro.Tze.ach) = a murderer and יְהִי (ye.Hi) = he is.
The thread — The motif of darkness concealing violent or deceitful acts appears in Psalms 10:8, where a lurker ambushes the innocent, and in 1 Thessalonians 5:2, which describes the Day of the Lord arriving unexpectedly like a thief in the night.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that moral accountability operates independently of human visibility, as the wicked rely on darkness to evade observation while the reader must acknowledge the reality of hidden injustice.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Cross-references
- Psalms 10:8 He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- Revelation 3:3 Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
- 2 Samuel 11:14 The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
- Luke 12:39 But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
- Ephesians 5:7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.