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


In Context

13 They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

15 And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.

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

17 When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

18 Light he is on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of 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 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 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.