Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

In Context

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.

17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If the thief is found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

Job 38:12Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place

Ezekiel 12:12And the ruler who is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth. They shall dig through the wall to carry out by it. He shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Ephesians 5:11And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke 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 →

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