Job 24:17

For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

In Context

16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

Read all of Job 24

Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.

Psalms 73:18Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.

Matthew Henry on Job 24:14-18

Present Impunity of Transgressors. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Job 24:17