Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:16

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16. dig through —Houses in the East are generally built of sun-dried mud bricks (so :- ). "Thieves break through," literally, "dig through" ( Ezekiel 12:7 ). had marked —Rather, as in Job 9:7 , "They shut themselves up" (in their houses); literally, "they seal up." for themselves —for their own ends, namely, to escape detection. know not —shun. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-17" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-job-24-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/job-24-16

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological