Job 24:16

He hath dug in the darkness — houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

Young's Literal Translation

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

15And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.

17When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:2'If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him;

Job 38:12Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

Ezekiel 12:12As to the prince who [is] in their midst, on the shoulder he beareth in the darkness, and he goeth forth, through the wall they dig to bring forth by it, his face he covereth, that he may not look on the very surface of the land.

Matthew 24:43and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

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

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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