KJV King James Version
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
WEB World English Bible
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
ASV American Standard Version
In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He hath dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
Surrounding context — Job 24
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 them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
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John 3:20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.Ephesians 5:11-13And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].Job 24:13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: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 see not the ground with [his] eyes.Job 38:12-13Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;Exodus 22:2-3If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.Ezekiel 12:5-7Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
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