Job 24:14

14 Before daybreak
The text simply has לָאוֹר (laor, “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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