Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night 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 heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee 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 observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a 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 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 poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may 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 take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Luke 12:39 : 39 ‹And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.›
- Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].
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16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
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13 ¶ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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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 poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.
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12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
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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.
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4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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34 So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
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22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
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23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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20 For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
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9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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9 ¶ The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
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2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
3 If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
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11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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10 ‹But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.›
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5 ¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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13 ¶ The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
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4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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12 Yea, 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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9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
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22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
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7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
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20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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14 [There 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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6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth].
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4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.
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21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.