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Job 24:14

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

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  1. Job 24:12

    Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

  2. Job 24:13

    They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

  3. Job 24:15

    The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

  4. Job 24:16

    In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.