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: -

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;

Job 24:16 ; He wormeth into houses amidst the darkness. In the daytime they seal themselves up, They know not the light:

Job 24:17 ; For, the dawn they reckon to themselves as the death-shade; The horrors of the death-shade as it returneth.