Job 24:16
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New International Version (©1984)
In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"In the dark they dig into houses, They shut themselves up by day; They do not know the light.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In the dark, they break into houses, [but] by day they lock themselves in. They do not [even] know the light,

King James Bible
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

American King James Version
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

American Standard Version
In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.

Darby Bible Translation
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

English Revised Version
In the dark they dig through houses: they shut themselves up in the daytime; they know not the light.

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

World English Bible
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. dig through-Houses in the East are generally built of sun-dried mud bricks (so Mt 6:19). "Thieves break through," literally, "dig through" (Eze 12:7).

had marked-Rather, as in Job 9:7, "They shut themselves up" (in their houses); literally, "they seal up."

for themselves-for their own ends, namely, to escape detection.

know not-shun.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:13-17 See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains those take, who make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it: pains to compass, and then to hide that which will end in death and hell at last. Less pains would mortify and crucify the flesh, and be life and heaven at last. Shame came in with sin, and everlasting shame is at the end of it. See the misery of sinners; they are exposed to continual frights: yet see their folly; they are afraid of coming under the eye of men, but have no dread of God's eye, which is always upon them: they are not afraid of doing things which they are afraid of being known to do.


Exodus 22:2 "If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.
Matthew 6:19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
John 3:20 "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. (NASB ©1995)

Break Dark Darkness Daytime Day-Time Dig Dug Holes Houses Light Makes Marked Shut Shutting Themselves Walls Want


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

in the dark Ex 22:2,3 Eze 12:5-7,12 Mt 24:43

they know 13 38:12,13 Joh 3:20 Eph 5:11-13

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