Job 24:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

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  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Eph 5:11-13 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light: for whatever makes manifest is light.
  • Exod 22:2-3 : 2 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodshed for him. 3 If the sun has risen upon him, there shall be bloodshed for him, for he should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
  • Job 24:13 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place, 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
  • Ezek 12:5-7 : 5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your belongings out through it. 6 In their sight you shall bear it upon your shoulders, and carry it forth at twilight: you shall cover your face, that you do not see the ground: for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel. 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought out my belongings by day, as belongings for captivity, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought them out at twilight, and I bore them on my shoulder in their sight.
  • Ezek 12:12 : 12 And the prince who is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out through it: he shall cover his face, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
  • Matt 24:43 : 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

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