Job 24:14

New English Translation

¹⁴Before daybreak^[a] the murderer rises up;
he kills the poor and the needy;
in the night he is^[b] like a thief.^[c]

Job 24:14 tn The text simply has לָאוֹר (laʾor, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.
Job 24:14 tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k).
Job 24:14 sn The point is that he is like a thief in that he works during the night, just before the daylight, when the advantage is all his and the victim is most vulnerable.

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