Job 24:17

For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

Brenton Septuagint

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 darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

18He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.

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Cross References

Job 3:5But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

Psalms 73:18Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

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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