Job 24:16 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁶ digged through houses in the dark: [during the day they had shut themselves up; they had no acquaintance with light]

² If a thief be found in the act of breaking in and be struck and die, he who struck him is not liable to death; ³ but if the sun was risen upon him he is liable and may be put to death. If a thief hath no property, let him be sold for the theft.

¹³ Now why hath he not called these to account while on earth? Though they did not acknowledge; though they did not know the way of justice; did they not still go on in their courses?

¹² Was it in concert with thee that I ordered the morning light; and that the day spring knew its appointed time ¹³ to tinge the wings of the earth; to scare the wicked from it?

⁵ Make for thyself a breach in the wall and thou shalt go out through that, in their sight. ⁶ Thou shalt be taken up upon shoulders and shalt go out in a secret manner. Thou shalt cover thy face and not see the ground, for I have made thee a sign for the house of Israel. ⁷ So when I had done according to all that he had commanded me; and had carried out utensils for a day of captivity, and made in the evening a breach for myself in the wall, and had gone out in a concealed manner, being taken up upon shoulders in their sight;

¹² And the chief in the midst of them shall be carried upon shoulders. He will go out in a secret manner through the wall; and a breach will be made for him to go out through it. He will cover his face that he may not be seen and he himself shall not see the ground.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

⁴³ But this you know, that if the master of a family knew at what watch the thief would come, he would be upon guard and not suffer him to break into his house.

²⁰ For whosoever doeth evil hateth the light, and doth not come to the light, that his deeds may not be detected.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them: ¹² for as to the things done by them in secret, it is shameful even to mention them. ¹³ But all these reprehensible things are exposed to view by the light. For it is light which exposeth every thing to view;