Job 24:17

But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

18He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.

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Cross References

Job 3:5But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.

Psalms 73:18Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ, that euery man may receiue the things which are done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or euill.

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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