Job 24:17

כִּי יַחְדָּו ׀ בֹּקֶר לָמוֹ צַלְמָוֶת כִּֽי ־ יַכִּיר בַּלְהוֹת צַלְמָֽוֶת ׃

Hebrew Tanakh (Original)

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

16חָתַר בַּחֹשֶׁךְ בָּתִּים יוֹמָם חִתְּמוּ ־ לָמוֹ לֹא ־ יָדְעוּ אֽוֹר ׃

18קַֽל ־ הוּא ׀ עַל ־ פְּנֵי ־ מַיִם תְּקֻלַּל חֶלְקָתָם בָּאָרֶץ לֹֽא ־ יִפְנֶה דֶּרֶךְ כְּרָמִֽים ׃

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Cross References

Job 3:5יִגְאָלֻהוּ חֹשֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָוֶת תִּשְׁכָּן ־ עָלָיו עֲנָנָה יְבַעֲתֻהוּ כִּֽמְרִירֵי יֽוֹם ׃

Psalms 73:18אַךְ בַּחֲלָקוֹת תָּשִׁית לָמוֹ הִפַּלְתָּם לְמַשּׁוּאֽוֹת ׃

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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