Job 24:16

They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.

17But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If a thiefe bee founde breaking vp, and be smitten that he dye, no blood shall be shed for him.

Job 38:12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,

Ezekiel 12:12And the chiefest that is among them, shall beare vpon his shoulder in the darke, and shall goe forth: they shall digge through the wall, to cary out thereby: he shall couer his face, that he see not the ground with his eies.

Matthew 24:43Of this be sure, that if the good man of the house knewe at what watch the thiefe would come, he woulde surely watch, and not suffer his house to be digged through.

Ephesians 5:11And haue no fellowship with ye vnfruitfull works of darknes, but euen reproue them rather.

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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