Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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Exodus 22:2If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Job 38:12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Ezekiel 12:12And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Ephesians 5:11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Matthew Henry on Job 24:14-18
Present Impunity of Transgressors. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to… Read the whole commentary →