Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

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WEBBE

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

BSB

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

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

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.

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חָתַר cha·tar he digs into H2864 בַּחֹשֶׁךְ ba·cho·shekh in (the) darkness H2822 בָּתִּים ba·tim houses H1004 יוֹמָם yo·mam by day H3119 חִתְּמוּ־ chi·te·mu- they seal up H2856 לָמוֹ la·mo for themselves H9038 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 יָדְעוּ ya·de·'u they know H3045 אוֹר 'or light H216

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 13–17

See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains those take, who make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it: pains to compass, and then to hide that which will end in death and hell at last. Less pains would mortify and crucify the flesh, and be life and heaven at last. Shame came in with sin, and everlasting shame is at the end of it. See the misery of sinners; they are exposed to continual frights: yet see their folly; they are afraid of coming under the eye of men, but have no dread of God's eye, which is always upon them: they are not afraid of doing things which they are afraid of being known to do.

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