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14 At dusk[a] the murderer rises;
he kills the needy and the poor,
and in the night he is like a[b] thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’[c]
and he places a covering on his face.
16 He digs through houses in the darkness;
by day they shut themselves in—
they do not know the light

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:14 Literally “At the light”
  2. Job 24:14 Or “the”
  3. Job 24:15 Literally “‘An eye will not see me’”