Job 24:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • John 3:20 : 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
  • Eph 5:11-13 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
  • Exod 22:2-3 : 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
  • Job 24:13 : 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
  • Ezek 12:5-7 : 5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel. 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
  • Ezek 12:12 : 12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
  • Matt 24:43 : 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 24:17
    87%

    17 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.

  • Job 24:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

    13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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

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

  • Job 5:14
    82%

    14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

    13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Prov 4:19
    77%

    19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • Prov 4:16
    75%

    16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Job 34:22
    75%

    22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 10:22
    74%

    22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Mic 2:1
    74%

    1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Job 12:25
    74%

    25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

  • Prov 7:9
    74%

    9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

  • Ps 64:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Joel 2:9
    74%

    9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

  • Job 15:23
    74%

    23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Isa 29:15
    73%

    15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

  • Isa 8:22
    73%

    22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Isa 17:14
    73%

    14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • Prov 1:18
    73%

    18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

  • Job 18:6
    73%

    6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • 1 Thess 5:4
    72%

    4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

  • Job 24:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

    7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

  • Eccl 12:3
    72%

    3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

  • Job 3:9
    72%

    9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • John 11:10
    72%

    10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

  • Amos 5:20
    72%

    20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Job 4:20
    72%

    20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • Jer 18:22
    72%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Ps 139:12
    71%

    12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

  • Ps 56:6
    71%

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Hos 7:6
    71%

    6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

  • Job 34:25
    71%

    25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • Ps 82:5
    71%

    5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

  • Job 36:20
    71%

    20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • Luke 8:16
    71%

    16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

  • Job 24:4
    71%

    4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

  • Job 38:19
    71%

    19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • Mic 3:6
    71%

    6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

  • Job 30:6
    71%

    6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

  • Job 20:26
    71%

    26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

  • 1 Thess 5:2
    71%

    2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Job 12:22
    71%

    22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.