New Revised Standard Version
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

Contemporary English Version
Robbers hide during the day, then break in after dark because they reject the light.

New American Bible
in the dark he breaks into houses; By day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.

He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.

in the dark

Exodus 22:2,3 If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood. . . .

Ezekiel 12:5-7,12 Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it. . . .

Matthew 24:43 But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

they know

Job 24:13 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.

Job 38:12,13 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? . . .

John 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

Ephesians 5:11-13 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them. . . .