Job 24:14

In 11 translations

BSB

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

KJV

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

WEB

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

ASV

The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

LSV

The murderer rises at the light, || He slays the poor and needy, || And in the night he is as a thief.

YLT

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

DBY

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

DRC

The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.

GNV

The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

JPS

The murderer riseth with the light, to kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

LXXE

But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:

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WLC

לָא֡וֹר יָ֘ק֤וּם רוֹצֵ֗חַ יִֽקְטָל־עָנִ֥י וְאֶבְי֑וֹן וּ֝בַלַּ֗יְלָה יְהִ֣י כַגַּנָּֽב׃

LXX-Br

Γνοὺς δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ ἔργα, παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς σκότος, καὶ νυκτὸς ἔσται ὡς κλέπτης.

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• Micah 2:1–2Woe 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. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of…
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
• Psalms 10:8–10He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless. He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his…
• Revelation 3:3Remember, 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.
• Luke 12:39But 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 5:7–11Therefore do not be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. Test and…
• 2 Samuel 11:14–17The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.” So as…

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