Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: 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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

Darby Translation

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

Young's Literal Translation

He hath dug in the darkness — houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

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.

In context

15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

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