King James Version (KJV)

Job 24:16

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

Verse in context — Job 24

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

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

For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

A poetic exploration of suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty.