Job 24:16

World English Bible (WEB)

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

In context

14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

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

17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

18 “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

WEB World English Bible: In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
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.
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.