Job 24:17

For to all of these alike is the morning as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

Leeser Tanakh

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

16They break into houses in the dark, in the daytime they lock themselves in: they know not the light.

18Swift are such men [to flee] on the face of the water; accursed is their field on the land; none of them turneth himself to the way, of the vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it.

Psalms 73:18Surely thou placest them on slippery spots: thou lettest them fall down into destruction.

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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