14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. …
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. …
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)These verses describe another sort of sinners who therefore go unpunished, because they go undiscovered. They rebel against the light , Job 24:13. Some understand it figuratively: they sin against the light of nature, the light of God’s law, and that of their own consciences; they profess to know God, but they rebel against the knowledge they have of him, and will not be guided and governed, comma…
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