Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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- Psalm 10:8–10 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
- Micah 2:1–2 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.