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Job 24:16 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light. "
Job 24:16
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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 will see me.’ He disguises his face.
16 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 on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
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Job 24:1
"“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?"
Job 24:2
"There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them."
Job 24:3
"They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge."
Job 24:4
"They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves."
Job 24:5
"Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children."
Job 24:6
"They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked."
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