Devine Scripture

Job 24:16

Job chapter 24 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

Context

v.15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

v.16This passage

v.17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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: