Job 24:16

In the dark they break into houses; In the daytime they shut themselves up; They are strangers to the light.

Noyes 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 watcheth for the twilight; He saith, “No eye will see me,” And putteth a mask upon his face.

17The morning is to them the very shadow of death; They are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

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Cross References

Job 38:12Hast thou, in thy life, given charge to the morning, Or caused the day-spring to know its place,

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

Matthew 24:43But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

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