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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- Psalm 10:8–10 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 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. The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
- Micah 2:1–2 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. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.