“In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.”
Job 24:16 (KJV) |
Job 24:16
From Job 24, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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.
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.