Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 24:16

16. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light .

Either 1. the Adulterer last mentioned; although such persons do not use nor need these violent courses to get into the house of the Adulteress, but are commonly admitted upon milder and easier terms. Or 2. the Thief or Robber, whose common practise this is, of whom he spoke [illegible: 1+ letters]. 14. and having on that occasion inserted the mention of the Adulterer as one who acted his sin in the same manner as the Night-thief did, he▪ now returns to him again.

The Thief and his Complices.

Designing by some secret mark the house of some rich man which they intended to rob▪ and the part of the house where they resolved to enter into it.

i. e. Do not love nor like it, as Verse 13. but abhor it, as it follows.

Marginal references: John 3. 20.