Job 24:17

If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.

18He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

Psalms 73:18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all be manifested before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath 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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