Job 24:17

For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

Darby Translation

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; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

18He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

Psalms 73:18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] 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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