Parallel Verses
Webster
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
New American Standard Bible
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And at night he is as a thief.
King James Version
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Holman Bible
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.
International Standard Version
The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief.
A Conservative Version
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.
American Standard Version
The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
Amplified
“The murderer rises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he becomes a thief.
Bible in Basic English
He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
Darby Translation
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Julia Smith Translation
The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief.
King James 2000
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.
Modern King James verseion
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is a thief.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.
NET Bible
Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
New Heart English Bible
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
The Emphasized Bible
With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.
World English Bible
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Youngs Literal Translation
At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
Themes
Early rising » For devotions » To do evil
Exaltation » Who is exalted for a little while
Forgetting » Who shall be forgotten
Light » Divided into » Natural
Murder » Often committed by night
Murder » The wicked » Perpetrate
Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked
Straying » Who strays from the right path
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Names
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:14-17
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
Psalm 10:8-10
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.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Luke 12:39
And this know, that if the master of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would watch, and not suffer his house to be broken through.
Ephesians 5:7-11
Be ye not therefore partakers with them.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Revelation 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 thee.