Job 24:17
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.
Job 24:17 in other translations
| BSB | For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness! |
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| WEB | For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness. |
| ASV | For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness. |
| YLT | When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade. |
| DARBY | For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death. |
| BBE | For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark. |
| Webster | For the morning is to them even as the shades of death: if one knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shades of death. |
What does Job 24:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25
2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 24:13-17
See what care and pains wicked men take to compass their wicked designs; let it shame our negligence and slothfulness in doing good. See what pains those take, who make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it: pains to compass, and then to hide that which will end in death and hell at last. Less pains would mortify and crucify the flesh, and be life and heaven at last. Shame came in with sin, and…
Job 24:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 24:17
- Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
- 2 Corinthians 5:10-11
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
- Revelation 6:16-17
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
- Psalms 73:18-19
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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Context
- Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- Job 24:17
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.
- Job 24:18
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Job 24:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque la mañana es á todos ellos como sombra de muerte; si son conocidos, terrores de sombra de muerte los toman. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car le matin est pour eux tous l’ombre de la mort, car ils connaissent les terreurs de l’ombre de la mort. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn als Morgen gilt ihnen allesamt der Todesschatten, denn ein jeder von ihnen ist bekannt mit den Schrecken des Todesschattens. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis: et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant. |