Job 24:16
King James Version (KJV)
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
In context
14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For 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.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Job 24:16 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- WEB World English Bible
- In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
- ASV American Standard Version
- In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- He hath dug in the darkness — houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
- DBY Darby Translation
- In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
- WBS Webster Bible
- In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.