Job 24:13

REGARDING MURDERERS; ADULTERERS; AND THIEVES

"These are of them that rebel against the light;

They know not the ways thereof,

Nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer riseth with the light;

He killeth the poor and needy;

And in the night he is a thief.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,

Saying, No eye shall see me;

And he disguiseth his face.

In the dark they dig through houses:

They shut themselves up in the day time;

They know not the light

For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness;

And they know the terrors of the thick darkness."

This whole paragraph identifies the gross wickedness of evil men as generally being perpetrated at night. This is in full harmony with the New Testament references to such sins as, "the works of darkness" (Romans 13:12), "the hidden things of darkness" (1 Corinthians 4:5), and "the unfruitful works of darkness" (Ephesians 5:11). Like certain animals of prey, such men sleep in the daytime and operate their nefarious business at night. Christians are everywhere referred to in the New Testament as the "Children of light."

"The morning is to all of them as thick darkness" (Job 24:17). "This means that they dread the morning as much as ordinary people dread the night."[4]