Numbers 32:23

be sure your sin will find you out lit. -know your sin, that it will find you." The rendering of the E.V., which has passed, as a proverbial expression, into our current language, is based upon an ancient notion that sin, like a curse, has so to speak an individual existence. The sinner cannot escape its consequences; it will search and find him wherever he may hide himself. Cf. Genesis 4:7 -sin coucheth at the door."