Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Majority Standard Bible

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 of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.

Job 38:12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Ezekiel 12:12And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.

Matthew 24:43But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather 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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