World English Bible
Job 24:16
“In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.”
Verse in context — Job 24
14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
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In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
17
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18
They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
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