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Job 24:16

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

In other versions

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

    ASV

  • In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    BBE

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

    DBY

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

    WEB

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

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

  • In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

    BSB

In context

14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

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

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

17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

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