Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light
New American Standard Bible
They
They do not know the light.
King James Version
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Holman Bible
by day they lock themselves in,
never experiencing the light.
International Standard Version
They break into houses in the dark; during the day they remained sealed in. They don't know daylight.
A Conservative Version
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.
American Standard Version
In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
Amplified
“In the dark they dig into [the penetrable walls of] houses;
They shut themselves up by day;
They do not know the light [of day].
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
King James 2000
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light
Modern King James verseion
In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
In the night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light.
NET Bible
In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
New Heart English Bible
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.
The Emphasized Bible
He breaketh, in the dark, into houses, - By day, they lock themselves in, They know not the light;
Webster
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
World English Bible
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
Themes
Darkness » The wicked » Perpetrate their designs in
Exaltation » Who is exalted for a little while
Forgetting » Who shall be forgotten
Secret sins » Warnings against
Sin » Secret » Warnings against
Sins » Secret » Warnings against
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
15 And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face. 16 To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light 17 For the morning altogether to them the shadow of death: if it shall be known, the terrors of the shadow of death.
Cross References
John 3:20
For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked.
Exodus 22:2-3
If in breaking in a thief shall be found, and he was smitten and died, no bloods for him.
Job 24:13
They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.
Job 38:12-13
In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place?
Ezekiel 12:5-7
Before their eyes break through to thee in the wall, and bring forth by it
Ezekiel 12:12
And the prince which is in the midst of them shall lift up upon the shoulder in thick darkness, and go forth: they shall break through into the wall to bring forth by it: he shall cover his face so that be shall not see the earth with the eye.
Matthew 6:19
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined.
Ephesians 5:11-13
And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute.