Job 24:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy and in the night is like a thief.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, And in the night is as a thief.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light; he kills the poor and the needy, and in the night he becomes as a thief.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ The murderer rises at twilight, kills the poor and needy; at night, they are like a thief.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ The killer of men rises at first light; he executes the destitute and the poor, but, in truth, he is like a thief in the night.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ 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.

Job 24:14 Cross References

Job 24:13

“There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways and do not stay in its paths.

Job 24:4

They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Luke 12:39

“But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.