Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Job 24:16 in other translations
| BSB | In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light. |
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| WEB | In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light. |
| ASV | In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light. |
| YLT | He hath dug in the darkness--houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light. |
| DARBY | In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light: |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light. |
What does Job 24:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…
Job 24:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 24:16
- John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
- Ephesians 5:11-13
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
- Ezekiel 12:12
And 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.
- Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
- Ezekiel 12:5-7
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel. And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
- Matthew 24:43
But 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.
- Job 24:13
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
- Job 38:12-13
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
- Exodus 22:2-3
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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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Context
- Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
- Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- Job 24:17
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.
Job 24:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En las tinieblas minan las casas, que de día para sí señalaron; no conocen la luz. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Dans les ténèbres ils percent les maisons, de jour ils s’enferment; ils ne connaissent pas la lumière; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | In der Finsternis erbricht man die Häuser. Bei Tage schließen sie sich ein, das Licht kennen sie nicht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Perfodit in tenebris domos, sicut in die condixerant sibi, et ignoraverunt lucem. |