Job 24:16

They break into houses in the dark, in the daytime they lock themselves in: they know not the light.

Leeser Tanakh

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 watcheth for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and placeth a covering on his face.

17For to all of these alike is the morning as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2(22:1) If a thief be found while breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

Job 38:12Didst thou ever, in all thy days, command the morning; didst thou ever assign the morning-dawn its place:

Ezekiel 12:12And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; through the wall shall they break a hole to carry [things] through it: his face shall he cover up, that he may not see 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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