In Gbaya, the notion of setting off early at dawn in Job 24:5 is emphasized with sút, an ideophone that refers to early morning. Note that the Gbaya translators interpreted along the lines of the French Traduction œcuménique de la Bible which has “set off for their work at dawn” (ils partent au travail dès l’aube) where most English versions don’t emphasize the time of day.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)