Job 24:16 In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.

◄ Job 24:16 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.

English Standard Version
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

New American Standard Bible
"In the dark they dig into houses, They shut themselves up by day; They do not 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the dark they break into houses; by day they lock themselves in, never experiencing the light.

International Standard Version
They break into houses in the dark; during the day they remained sealed in. They don't know daylight.

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

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.