LEV369 Do not delay payment of a worker’s wages. The context of this verse is a day laborer. The Torah gives his employer the whole night until the following morning to pay him. If one hires a worker for night labor, the Torah gives the employer the complete day until the following night to pay his wage. Hashem wants that man should live. If a worker toils all day long and is not paid his wages, he might suffer weakness because of lack of food and could die during the night. If so, you might wonder why one is not required to pay the wages of day laborers immediately at nightfall. The reason is that people occasionally fast for a day. Therefore, until a day passes, a delay in payment of wages is not regarded as posing a danger to life.