Job 24:14

Before daybreak ¹  the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is ²  like a thief. ³ 

2Sa 11:14-17; Ps 10:8-10; Mic 2:1,2; Lu 12:39; Eph 5:7-11; 1Th 5:2; Re 3:3

¹ tn The text simply has לָאוֹר (la’or, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.

² tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k).

³ 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.