Job 24:16
“In the darke they digge through houses which they had marked for themselues in the day time: they know not the light.”
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Job 24:16 Context
14The murderer rising with the light, killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe. 15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16In the darke they digge through houses which they had marked for themselues in the day time: they know not the light. 17For the morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadow of death. 18Hee is swift as the waters, their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the Uineyards.
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Other Translations for Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- King James Version
"In the dark they dig into houses, They shut themselves up by day; They do not know the light.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
- American Standard Version (1901)
In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
- Basic English Bible
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
- Darby Bible
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
- Webster's Bible
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
- World English Bible
He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
- Youngs Literal Bible
In the dark they dig through houses; they shut themselves up in the day-time; they know not the light.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 24:16
24:16 They - The robber: having on that occasion inserted the mention of the adulterer as one who acted his sin in the same manner as the night - thief did, he now returns to him again.