Job 24:16

In darkness he digs through houses: 1 By day they conceal themselves securely: 1 They know not the light. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 has watched for the darkness, 1 Saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face. 1

17For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, 1 For each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen.

Job 38:12Or did I order the morning light in thy time; 1 And did the morning star then first see his appointed place; 1

Ezekiel 12:12And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by any eye, and he himself shall not see the ground.

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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