Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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- 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
- Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
- 2 Sam 11:14-17 : 14 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die. 16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 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 lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. 10 The helpless are crushed, they collapse, They fall under his strength.
- Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity And work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand. 2 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 allowed his house to be broken into.
- Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Therefore don't be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but are now 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 well-pleasing to the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
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16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
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14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who 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, To kill those who are upright in the way.
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12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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1 Woe to those who devise iniquity And work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.
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6 They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
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22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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32 The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to kill him.
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19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
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20 For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
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9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
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9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, But the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
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5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
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13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
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4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,
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20 You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the animals of the forest prowl.
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21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.