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


In Context

13 "There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.

14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.

15 The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.

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

17 For all of them, deep darkness is their morning ; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.

18 "Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to 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 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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not 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.