Job 24:14
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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- Psalm 10:8–10 He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless. He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net. They are crushed and beaten down; the helpless fall prey to his strength.
- Micah 2:1–2 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.