Job 24:17

The morning is to them the very shadow of death; They are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

Noyes Bible

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 break into houses; In the daytime they shut themselves up; They are strangers to the light.

18Light are they on the face of the waters; They have an accursed portion in the earth; They come not near the vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let whatever darkeneth the day terrify it!

Psalms 73:18Behold! thou hast set them on slippery places; Thou castest them down into unseen pits.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he did, whether good or bad.

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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