Job 24:16

He passes through houses in the nighttime, just as they had agreed among themselves in the daytime; and they are ignorant of the light.

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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 of the adulterer waits for darkness, saying, “No eye will see me,” and he covers his face.

17If sunrise should suddenly appear, it is treated by them like the shadow of death; and they walk in darkness, as if in light.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If a thief will have been discovered breaking into a house, or digging under it, and he has received a mortal wound, he who struck him down will not be guilty of blood.

Job 38:12Did you, after your birth, command the birth of the sun and show the sunrise its place?

Ezekiel 12:12And the leader who is in their midst will be carried on shoulders; he will go forth in darkness. They will dig through the wall, so that they may lead him away. His face will be covered, so that he may not see the land with his eye.

Matthew 24:43But know this: if only the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly keep vigil and not permit his house to be broken into.

Ephesians 5:11And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute 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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