Job 24:16

He has dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, || They have not known light.

Literal Standard Version

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 an adulterer || Has observed the twilight, || Saying, No eye beholds me. And he puts the face in secret.

17When together, morning [is] death-shade to them, || When he discerns the terrors of death-shade.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he has been struck and has died, there is no blood for him;

Job 38:12Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?

Ezekiel 12:12As for the prince who [is] in their midst, he carries on the shoulder in the darkness, and he goes forth; they dig through the wall to bring forth by it; he covers his face that he may not look on the very surface of the land.

Matthew 24:43and know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and did not permit his house to be broken through;

Ephesians 5:11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

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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