Job 24:17

For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 day-time; they know not the light.

18He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he turneth not by the way of the vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

Psalms 73:18Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.

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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