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