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Job 24:14 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. "
Job 24:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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Job 24:1
"Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?"
Job 24:2
"Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof."
Job 24:3
"They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge."
Job 24:4
"They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together."
Job 24:5
"Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children."
Job 24:6
"They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked."
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