Job 24:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the daytime; They know not the light.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses, Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: They know not the light.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ In the dark, they dig through [the penetrable walls of] houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the sunlight.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ In the dark they break into houses; they shut themselves in by day; they don’t know the light.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ He passes through houses in the nighttime, just as they had agreed among themselves in the daytime; and they are ignorant of the light.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves: and they have not known the light.

Job 24:16 Cross References

Job 24:13

These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

Ezekiel 12:12

And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the ground with his eyes.

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Matthew 6:19

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth consume, and where thieves break through and steal:

John 3:20

For every one that doeth ill hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.