Job 24:17

For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

16He breaketh, in the dark, into houses,—By day, they lock themselves in, They know not the light;

18Swift is he on the face of the waters, Speedily vanished their share in the land, He turneth not to the way of the vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:

Psalms 73:18Surely, in slippery places, dost thou set them,—Thou hast suffered them to fall into places of danger.

2 Corinthians 5:10For, we all, must needs be made manifest before the judgment seat of the Christ, that each one may get back the things done by means of the body, according to the things which he practised, whether good or corrupt.

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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