Job 24:14,15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The murderer rising with the light As soon as the light appears, using no less diligence in his wicked practices than labourers do in their honest and daily employments; killeth the poor and needy Where he finds nothing to satisfy his covetousness, he exerciseth his cruelty. And in the night is as a thief He is really a thief; the particle as being often used to express, not the resemblance, but the truth, of the thing. In the night they rob men secretly and cunningly, as in the day-time they do it more openly and avowedly. The adulterer waiteth for the twilight Namely, for the evening twilight, which is his opportunity; saying In his heart; No eye shall see me Comforting himself with the thoughts of secrecy and impunity; and disguiseth his face Hebrew, putteth his face in secret; covers it with a mask that he may not be discovered.

Job 24:14-15

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 disguisethc his face.