Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

Darby Translation

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

15And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face.

17For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.

Job 38:12Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,

Ezekiel 12:12And the prince that is among them shall bear upon [his] shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby; he shall cover his face, that he see not the land with [his] eyes.

Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through [into].

Ephesians 5:11and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also 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 →

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