Job 24:14 | NET2full | STEP | Before daybreak the murderer rises up ; he kills the poor and the needy ; in the night he is like a thief .

‏ Job 24:14

14 Before daybreak ^{▼▼tn The text simply has לָאוֹר (laʾor, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.} the murderer rises up;
he kills the poor and the needy;
in the night he is ^{▼▼tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k).} like a thief. ^{▼▼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.}