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


In Context

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

14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

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

17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

18 Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

Job 24:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:16He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:16In the dark they dig through houses: they shut themselves up in the daytime; they know not the light.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:16He hath dug in the darkness — houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.