Job 24:16
What does Job 24:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 24:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
KJV
King James Version · 1611In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949In 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862He hath dug in the darkness--houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ephesians 5:11
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
- Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
- Exodus 22:2
If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
- Ezekiel 12:5
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
- Job 38:12
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place;
- Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
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