The Meaning of Job 24:14 Explained

Job 24:14

KJV: The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night 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.

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

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

Discover Job 24:14

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 24:14?

MEANING: What does Job 24:14 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 24:14 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 24:14?

What is the context of Job 24:14?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 24:14 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 24:1-25 - Not Here, But Hereafter

Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God, that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then turns to describe the life of the ungodly, who do dark deeds with apparent impunity. A very sad catalogue of crimes follows. The oppression of the needy, the driving away of the ass of the fatherless, the taking of the widow's ox for a pledge, the frequenting of the wilderness, the plunder of caravans regardless of the claims of pity, the stealing of oil and wine from those who had labored to produce them, the murdering of the poor laboring man at the dawn, the commission of crimes at night-such are the iniquities which are described. And these crimes are still committed in so-called Christian lands. Wonderful that God should bear with us, but His long-suffering would fain lead men to repent. It is only after long forbearing and trial that He cuts down.

In his closing words, Job 24:18-21, Job quotes the opinion of his friends as to the condition of the ungodly, that they pass away swiftly as the waters, and are snapped as a branch of a tree. And, in opposition, he states his own view, Job 24:23-25, that they die in exalted positions, not by a painful and lingering death, but as corn in the maturity of the ear. This also is true. Wicked men do not always meet their deserts in this world. In the next world penalty is inevitable. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 24

¹ Wickedness often goes unpunished
¹⁷ There is a secret judgment for the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 24:14 mean?

With the light rises the murderer He kills the poor and needy and in the night he is like a thief

לָא֡וֹר יָ֘ק֤וּם רוֹצֵ֗חַ יִֽקְטָל־ עָנִ֥י וְאֶבְי֑וֹן וּ֝בַלַּ֗יְלָה יְהִ֣י כַגַּנָּֽב

לָא֡וֹר	With the light
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, common singular Root: אֹור Sense: light.
יָ֘ק֤וּם	rises
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: קוּם Sense: to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up.
רוֹצֵ֗חַ	the murderer
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular Root: רָצַח Sense: to murder, slay, kill.
יִֽקְטָל־	He kills
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: קָטַל Sense: (Qal) to slay, kill.
עָנִ֥י	the poor
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular Root: עָנִי Sense: poor, afflicted, humble, wretched.
וְאֶבְי֑וֹן	and needy
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adjective, masculine singular Root: אֶבְיׄון Sense: in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person.
וּ֝בַלַּ֗יְלָה	and in the night
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: לַיִל Sense: night.
יְהִ֣י	he is
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular Root: אֶהְיֶה Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
כַגַּנָּֽב	like a thief
Parse: Preposition-k, Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: גַּנָּב Sense: thief.

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