Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

New American Standard Bible

“In the dark they dig into houses,
They shut themselves up by day;
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

In the dark they break into houses;
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:

Julia Smith Translation

To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In the dark
חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

חתר 
Chathar 
dig, row
Usage: 8

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

חתם 
Chatham 
Usage: 27

יומם 
Yowmam 
Usage: 53

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises 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 recognizes them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Cross References

John 3:20

For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Exodus 22:2-3

If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he dies, there shall no blood be shed for him.

Job 24:13

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

Job 38:12-13

Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place;

Ezekiel 12:5-7

Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out your belongings through it.

Ezekiel 12:12

And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to go out through it: he shall cover his face, so that he sees not the ground with his eyes.

Matthew 6:19

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the owner of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Ephesians 5:11-13

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

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