Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 24:14

"The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief." — Job 24:14 (ASV)

With the light. —The mention of light as a moral essence suggests its physical analogue, so that by the contrast of the one with the violence done to the other, the moral turpitude of the wrongdoing is heightened. It seems impossible to interpret the light in the former case (Job 24:13) as other than moral; and if so, the mention of the ways thereof and the paths thereof is very remarkable. The order in which these crimes of murder, adultery, and theft are mentioned, corresponding as it does with that in the Decalogue, is, in any case, suggestive of acquaintance with it.