Job 24:16

Thieves break into houses during the night and they sleep during the day. They don't even know what the light is like!

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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 adulterer waits for dusk, saying to himself, ‘No one will see me now,’ and he covers his face.

17Total darkness is like light to them, for they are familiar with the night.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If a thief is discovered breaking into someone's house and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of murder.

Job 38:12During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?

Ezekiel 12:12When it gets dark, their prince will also put his bags on his shoulder and leave. They will knock down the wall to take him away. He will cover his face so he can't see the country he's leaving behind.

Matthew 24:43But consider this: if the house-owner knew what time a thief was coming, he would keep watch. He would not allow his house to be broken into and robbed.

Ephesians 5:11Don't have anything to do with the pointless things that darkness produces—instead expose 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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