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The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 14

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13
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
King James Version
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night 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.
New English Translation
Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is 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.
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.
17
For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
18
He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
20
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21
He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
23
[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
24
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.