He breaks into houses in the darkness, which he marks for himself in the daytime; he knows no light, describing how the wicked mark their targets in daylight, calculating their theft in advance with the deliberate intention to strike under cover of night. The marking of houses for himself suggests property crime driven by desire and planning rather than desperation, the premeditated theft of those who have enough already. The assertion that he knows no light—that is, acknowledges no moral illumination—establishes that the criminal operates outside moral constraint, indifferent to the ethical categories that should govern human behavior. Job's depiction of the criminal's deliberate ignorance of light becomes a study in how the wicked actively cultivate blindness to moral reality.

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