John Trapp on Job 24:16

Verſe 16. In the dark they dig through the earth, &c.] Heb. He digs through houſes; i.e. the Adulterer doth, to come at his Strumpet, with whom he had agreed upon a place of meeting for that evil purpoſe, and in whoſe boſome by night (the dark and black night, as Solomon calleth it, Prov. 7.9) he ſpareth not to bury his name, ſubſtance, ſoul and carcaſſe, whilſt they glut their unclean deſires by the favour of the darkneſſe. This is a bitterneſſe beyond that of death, Eccleſ. 7.26. But the divel preſenteth his Butter in ſo Lordly a diſh, that the ſoul ſpies not the hammer and nail in his hand, till he have driven it into the Temples. Roger Mortimer, who digged that hole at Notingham Caſtle, and was afterwards hanged at Tiburn, (a juſt reward of his Ambition and Uncleanneſſe) had the experience of this.

They know not the light] i.e. They brook it not, but run full butt againſt it, becauſe it diſcovereth and diſquieteth them. See on ver. 13.