Job 24:16 BSB — MannaFest

Job 24:16

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

In the dark they dig through houses - Thieves in Bengal very frequently dig through the mud wall and under the clay floors of houses, and, entering unperceived, plunder them while the inhabitants are asleep. Mr. Good’s version of this paragraph I shall lay before the reader: - Job 24:15 For the dark too watcheth the eye of the adulterer; Exclaiming, No eye shall behold me. Then putteth he the muffler on his face; Job 24:16 He wormeth into houses amidst the darkness.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חָתַ֥ר	cha.Tar	he digs into	H2864 →
בַּחֹ֗שֶׁךְ	ba.Cho.shekh	in <the> darkness	H2822 →
בָּ֫תִּ֥ים	ba.Tim	houses	H1004 →
יוֹמָ֥ם	yo.Mam	by day	H3119 →
חִתְּמוּ־	chi.te.mu-	they seal up	H2856 →
לָ֗מוֹ	la.mo	for themselves
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יָ֥דְעוּ	Ya.de.'u	they know	H3045 →
אֽוֹר׃	'or	light	H216 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:11–13
  Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- John 7:7
  The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
- Job 24:13–17
  Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
- Proverbs 4:18
  The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Proverbs 1:29
  For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
Through
Job 24:13
Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
leads to
- John 3:19–20
  And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- Proverbs 4:19
  But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Through
Matthew 24:43
But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
leads to
- Luke 12:39
  But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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