Job 24:16
He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Perfodit in tenebris domos, sicut in die condixerant sibi, et ignoraverunt lucem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διώρυξεν ἐν σκότει οἰκίας· ἡμέρας ἐσφράγισαν ἑαυτούς, οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν φῶς·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חָתַ֥ר בַּחֹ֗שֶׁךְ בָּ֫תִּ֥ים יוֹמָ֥ם חִתְּמוּ לָ֗מוֹ לֹא יָ֥דְעוּ אֽוֹר
Haydock's commentary
Themselves. The band of robbers had marked out their prey. (Haydock)
Hebrew, "In the day time they lie concealed, and know not the light." (Calmet)
Septuagint, or rather Theodotion, from whom ver. 15 to 17., is taken, "They have sealed themselves up during the day." If we should read eautois, Hebrew lamo, we might translate as well "they marked them out for themselves." (Haydock)
The adulterer had made is his arrangement with the faithless woman, when he should break into the house. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.