Job 24:14 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁴ And hath he who knew their works delivered them up to darkness? And will he be as a thief in the night?

¹⁴ And in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Ourias, ¹⁵ and in the letter he wrote, saying, Set Ourias in the front of the hottest battle, and retire from him, that he may be smitten and die. ¹⁶ So in disposing the guards against the city, Joab stationed Ourias in the place where he knew there were men of valour. ¹⁷ And the men of the city sallied out, and fought with Joab, and some of the people of David's servants fell, and Ourias the Chittite died also.

⁸ Under his tongue there is mischief and sorrow. He sat in secret places with the rich to slay the innocent; His eyes are on the watch for the distressed. ⁹ He lurketh in secret like a lion in his den; He lurketh to make a prey of the poor. To make a prey of the poor when he hath drawn him in; in his net he will humble him. ¹⁰ He will stoop and crouch at his tyrannising over the poor;

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God. ² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance;

³⁹ Now this you know, that if the master of a family knew at what hour a thief would come, he would watch, and not suffer him to break into his house.

⁷ be not ye8 therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For you were formerly darkness, but being now a light in the Lord, walk as children of light ⁹ [for the fruit of this light consists of goodness and righteousness and truth of every sort] ¹⁰ proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them:

² for you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord cometh as a thief at night.

³ Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and keep fast hold, and reform. For if thou wilt not watch, I will come against thee, as a thief, so that thou shall not know at what hour I shall come against thee.