Job 24:14
Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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- 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.
- Rev 3:3 : 3 Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
- 2 Sam 11:14-17 : 14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In the letter he wrote:“Station Uriah at the front in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.” 16 So as Joab kept watch on the city, he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew the best enemy soldiers were. 17 When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David’s soldiers fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.
- Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim. 9 He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net. 10 His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.
- Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so. 2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
- Luke 12:39 : 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
- Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Therefore do not be sharers with them, 8 for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light– 9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth– 10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
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15And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.
16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
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13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.
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14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
- Ps 10:8-92 verses76%
8He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.
9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.
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16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
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14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
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14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.
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12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
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1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
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4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
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15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.
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34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”
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6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
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22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
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32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.
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23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
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18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
19Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
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19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
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20for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
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9in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
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9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.
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11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
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2“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.
3If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.
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11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
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10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
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5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.
6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
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20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
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13The poor person and the oppressor have this in common: the LORD gives light to the eyes of them both.
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5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
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4in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.
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12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
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9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
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4But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.
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22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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20For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
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7They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.
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20Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.
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14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.
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6They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.
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4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
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20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.
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4Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!
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21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.