Job 24:16

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In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

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  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
  • Eph 5:11-13 : 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of what they do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is made visible is light.
  • Exod 22:2-3 : 2 If the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt for his death. He must pay restitution; and if he owns nothing, he shall be sold for his theft. 3 If what was stolen is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox, a donkey, or a sheep, he must pay back double.
  • Job 24:13 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways nor stay on its paths.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Have you ever commanded the morning or shown the dawn its place, 13 that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
  • Ezek 12:5-7 : 5 In their sight, dig through the wall and carry your belongings through it. 6 Carry your things on your shoulder in their sight, at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel. 7 So I did as I was commanded. By day, I brought out my belongings as if for exile. In the evening, I dug through the wall with my hands. I brought them out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder in their sight.
  • Ezek 12:12 : 12 The prince who is among them will shoulder his belongings and leave in the darkness. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
  • Matt 24:43 : 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

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    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

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  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

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    22There is no darkness or deep shadow where evildoers can hide themselves.

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    22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

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    1Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

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  • Joel 2:9
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    9They rush into the city, they run upon the walls. They climb into houses and enter through the windows like a thief.

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    23He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

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    15Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'

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    22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

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