Job 24:14
14 Before daybreak ▼▼ The text simply has לָאוֹר (la’or, “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 ▼
▼ 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. ▼▼ 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.
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