13 These are they that abhor the [a]light: they know not the ways thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.

14 The murderer riseth early, and killeth the poor and the needy: and in the night he is as a thief.

15 The eye also of the [b]adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and saith, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.

16 They dig through houses in the dark, which they marked for themselves in the day: they know not the light.

17 But the morning is even to them as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:13 That is, God’s word, because they are reproved thereby.
  2. Job 24:15 By these particular vices and the licence thereunto, he would prove that God punished not the wicked, and rewardeth the just.

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