Job 24:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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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.›

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