The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy. The murderer rises at the first glimpse of dawn—the time when mast men sleep most soundly. He cannot go about his wicked business in complete darkness.
He has not the courage to attack the great and powerful, who might be well armed and have retainers to defend them, but enters the houses of a comparatively poor class, in which he is less afraid to risk himself.
Here, in the night he is as a thief. He has not come into the house simply for murder. Theft is his main object. He will not take life unless he is resisted or discovered, and so, in a certain sense, driven to it.