Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses; they shut themselves up in the day-time; they know not the light.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 waiteth for the twilight, saying: 'No eye shall see me'; and he putteth a covering on his face.

17For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2(22-1) If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

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

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

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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