Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.

Webster 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 also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

17For the morning is to them even as the shades of death: if one knoweth them , they are in the terrors of the shades of death.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2If a thief shall be found breaking through, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

Job 38:12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and 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 dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.

Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the master of the house knew in what watch the thief would come, he would watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken up.

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