Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

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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 also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

Job 38:12“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Ezekiel 12:12“‘The prince who is among them will bear his baggage on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.

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

Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds 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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