Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
KJV
Mane primo consurgit homicida ; interficit egenum et pauperem : per noctem vero erit quasi fur.
Vulgate
γνοὺς δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ ἔργα παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς σκότος, καὶ νυκτὸς ἔσται ὡς κλέπτης.
LXX
The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
ASV
לָ/א֡וֹר יָ֘ק֤וּם רוֹצֵ֗חַ יִֽקְטָל עָנִ֥י וְ/אֶבְי֑וֹן וּ֝/בַ/לַּ֗יְלָה יְהִ֣י כַ/גַּנָּֽב
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
אֶבְי֑וֹן
'byvn
adjective · 59×
גַּנָּֽב
gnb
noun · 17×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
נִי
ny
verb · 3×
עָנִ֣י
'ny
adjective · 77×
רֹצֵ֔חַ
rtsch
verb · 47×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Thess 5:2 — For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
- Job 24:4 — They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- Luke 12:3 — Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
- Mic 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Ps 10:8 — He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
- Ps 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
- Ps 91:5 — Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
- Rev 3:3 — Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon th
- Rom 13:12 — The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.