Job 24:17

If sunrise should suddenly appear, it is treated by them like the shadow of death; and they walk in darkness, as if in light.

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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

16He passes through houses in the nighttime, just as they had agreed among themselves in the daytime; and they are ignorant of the light.

18He is nimble on the surface of water. His place on land is to be accursed. May he not walk by way of the vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.

Psalms 73:18Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.

2 Corinthians 5:10For it is necessary for us to be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the proper things of the body, according to his behavior, whether it was good or evil.

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 →

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