Job 24:17

When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

Young's Literal Translation

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 hath dug in the darkness — houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

18Light he [is] on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

Psalms 73:18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

2 Corinthians 5:10for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

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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