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Job 24:13-15
New English Translation
Job 24:13-15
New English Translation
13 There are those[a] who rebel against the light;
they do not know its ways
and they do not stay on its paths.
14 Before daybreak[b] the murderer rises up;
he kills the poor and the needy;
in the night he is[c] like a thief.[d]
15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight,
thinking,[e] ‘No eye can see me,’
and covers his face with a mask.
Footnotes
- Job 24:13 tn Heb “They are among those who.”
- Job 24:14 tn The text simply has לָאוֹר (laʾor, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.
- Job 24:14 tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k).
- Job 24:14 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.
- Job 24:15 tn Heb “saying.”
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