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16 In the dark they dig through houses:
[a]They shut themselves up in the day-time;
They know not the light.
17 For [b]the morning is to all of them as thick darkness;
For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

18 [c]Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters;
Their portion is cursed in the earth:
They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:16 Or, Which they had marked for themselves
  2. Job 24:17 Or, thick darkness is to all of them as the morning; For they etc.
  3. Job 24:18 Or, Ye say, Swiftly etc. Hebrew Swift is he etc.