Job 24:14

American Standard Version (1901)

The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

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  • 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep [it], and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
  • 2 Sam 11:14-17 : 14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 16 And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. 10 He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Luke 12:39 : 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to be broken through. [
  • Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them; 8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

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    14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

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  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

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    14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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    4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:

  • Prov 24:34
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    34So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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    6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

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    23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Prov 1:18-19
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    18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

    19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • Prov 7:9
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    9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

  • Prov 13:9
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    9The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

  • Exod 22:2-3
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    2If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

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    11If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

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    10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

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    5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

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    20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

  • Prov 29:13
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    13The poor man and the oppressor meet together; Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.

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    4That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

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    12Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee] .

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    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

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    22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

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    20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.

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    7They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

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    20Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

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    14There is a generation whose teeth are [as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

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    6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

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    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.