Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
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- John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
- Eph 5:11-13 : 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. 12 For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. 13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that is revealed is light.
- Exod 22:2-3 : 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. 3 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
- Job 24:13 : 13 "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.
- Job 38:12-13 : 12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?
- Ezek 12:5-7 : 5 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel. 7 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
- Ezek 12:12 : 12 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
- Matt 6:19 : 19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
- Matt 24:43 : 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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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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7 They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
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3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the strong men shall bow themselves, And the grinders cease because they are few, And those who look out of the windows are darkened,
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