Ayub 24:16

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Pada masa kegelapan ditetasnya rumah, dan pada siang hari adalah mereka itu tersembunyi, maka tiada mereka itu mengetahui terang.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Di dalam gelap mereka membongkar rumah, pada siang hari mereka bersembunyi; mereka tidak kenal terang,

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Di dalam gelap mereka membongkar rumah, pada siang hari mereka bersembunyi; mereka tidak kenal terang,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In the dark: Exodus 22:2, Exodus 22:3, Ezekiel 12:5-7, Ezekiel 12:12, Matthew 24:43

they know: Job 24:13, Job 38:12, Job 38:13, John 3:20, Ephesians 5:11-13

Reciprocal: Job 31:9 - if I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime,.... Which some understand of adulterers last mentioned, who, having observed where beautiful women dwell, mark their houses, and the way to them, and the best way into them, and in the dark get in at windows, or by breaking open doors get to the persons they lust after; but as such steps would be neither safe nor prudent, so they are not necessary; such sort of persons get admittance in an easier way, either by bribing servants, or by a previous agreement with the adulteress herself: rather this is to be understood of the thief and his companions, before spoken of; or designs another sort of thieves, such as are guilty of burglary, housebreakers, who in the daytime go about and observe such houses as are full of money, plate, and rich goods, see Job 3:15; and take diligent notice of the way to them, and which is the best and easiest part to get into them, and, perhaps, set on them a private mark that they may know them; these they break up, the walls, or doors, or windows, and get in at them, and rob, and plunder, and carry off all they can; the same sins were committed, and the same methods of committing them were used, formerly as now; there was a law in Israel concerning housebreaking, Exodus 22:2; and our Lord alludes to it, Matthew 24:43. Some render the words, "they seal up" or "shut up themselves in the day" u; in their caves, and dens, and lurking places, and do not appear, and scarce ever see the light, and therefore it follows:

they know not the light; it is seldom or ever seen by them, or they do not approve it, like it, and love it, being not for their purpose; while it is light they can do nothing, that manifestly discovers and betrays them, and therefore they hate it; and in a figurative sense they know not, or do not approve of the light of nature, which checks and controls such evil actions, and accuses them of them; nor the light of God's word, or holy law, which forbids them, and therefore they despise it, and cast it away from them, and will not be subject to it; nor God himself, who is light, and against whom their carnal minds are enmity; and whatever knowledge they have of him, or profess to have, in works they deny him, and live without him, as atheists in the world.

u חתמו למו εσφραγισαν εαυτους, Sept. "includunt sese", some in Mercerus; so Drusius; "semet sigillant", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the dark they dig through houses - This refers, probably, to another class of wicked persons. The adulterer steals forth in the night, but it is not his way to “dig” into houses. But the persons here referred to are robbers, who conceal themselves by day, and who at night secretly enter houses for plunder. The phrase “dig through” probably has reference to the fact that houses were made of clay, or of bricks dried in the sun - a species of mud cottages, and whose walls, therefore, could be easily penetrated. In the East, nearly all the houses are made of unburned brick, and there is little difficulty in making a hole in the wall large enough to admit the human body; compare Ezekiel 12:7. In Bengal, says Mr. Ward, it is common for thieves to dig through the walls of houses made of mud, or under the house floors, which are made merely of earth, and enter thus into the dwellings while the inmates are asleep. Rosenmuller’s Alte u. neue Morgenland “in loc.”

Which they had marked for themselves in the day-time - According to this translation the idea would be, that in the day-time they carefully observed houses, and saw where an entrance might be effected. But this interpretation seems contrary to the general sense of the passage. It is said that they avoid the light, and that the night is the time for accomplishing their purposes. Probably, therefore, the meaning of this passage is, “in the day time they shut themselves up.” So it is rendered by Gesenius, Rosenmuller, Noyes, and others. The word here used, and rendered “marked” (חתם châtham), means to seal, to seal up; and hence, the idea of shutting up, or making fast; see Job 9:7, note; Isaiah 8:17, note. Hence, it may mean to shut up close as if one was locked in; and the idea here is, that in the day-time they shut themselves up close in their places of concealment, and went forth to their depredations in the night.

They know not the light - They do not see the light. They do all their work in the dark.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:16. 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: -

Ver. 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;

Ver. Job 24:16. He wormeth into houses amidst the darkness.

In the daytime they seal themselves up,

They know not the light:

Ver. Job 24:17. For, the dawn they reckon to themselves as the

death-shade;

The horrors of the death-shade as it returneth.