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King James Version

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Homicide;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Exaltation;   Forgetting;   Rebellion;   Straying;   Wickedness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shadow of Death;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.
English Revised Version
For the morning is to all of them as the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.
Update Bible Version
For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
New Century Version
Darkness is like morning to all these evil people who make friends with the terrors of darkness.
New English Translation
For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Amplified Bible
"For the morning is the same to him as the thick darkness [of midnight]; For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
English Standard Version
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If the morewtid apperith sudeynli, thei demen the schadewe of deth; and so thei goon in derknessis as in liyt.
Berean Standard Bible
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
Contemporary English Version
They prefer night to day, since the terrors of the night are their friends.
American Standard Version
For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Bible in Basic English
For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
Complete Jewish Bible
For to all of them deep darkness is like morning, for the terrors of deep darkness are familiar to them.
Darby Translation
For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
Easy-to-Read Version
The darkest night is their morning. They are friends with the terrors of darkness.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.
King James Version (1611)
For the morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadow of death.
New Life Bible
For midnight is morning to them. They are not afraid of the fears of darkness.
New Revised Standard
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore they sought for themselves the shadow of death, and have found it: yea, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Good News Translation
They fear the light of day, but darkness holds no terror for them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
Revised Standard Version
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
Christian Standard Bible®
For the morning is like darkness to them.Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!
Hebrew Names Version
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Lexham English Bible
because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.
Literal Translation
For alike are morning and the shadow of death to them; for he knows the terrors of death shadow.
Young's Literal Translation
When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For as soone as the daye breaketh, the shadowe of death commeth vpo them, and they go in horrible darcknesse.
New American Standard Bible
"For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness, For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
New King James Version
For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death; If someone recognizes them, They are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness, For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the morning is the same to him as the shadow of death,For he recognizes the terrors of the shadow of death.

Contextual Overview

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 them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the terrors: Job 3:5, Psalms 73:18, Psalms 73:19, Jeremiah 2:26, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 2 Corinthians 5:11, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 6:17

Reciprocal: Job 12:22 - bringeth Job 18:14 - the king Job 34:22 - nor Psalms 23:4 - through Ezekiel 12:6 - cover Hebrews 2:15 - through

Cross-References

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
Genesis 24:17
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Genesis 24:18
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
Genesis 24:35
And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
1 Kings 17:10
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
Isaiah 21:14
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
Isaiah 30:25
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death,.... It is as disagreeable, and as hateful, and as terrible to them as the grossest and thickest darkness can be to others. The word יחדו is to be rendered either "alike" or "altogether", and not "even", as in our version: "the morning is to them equally" or "together" w; that is, to the murderer, robber, thief, adulterer, and housebreaker, "as the shadow of death"; alike disagreeable to them all; or "the shadow of death is to them together" or "alike [as the] morning"; what the morning is to others, exceeding pleasant and delightful, that to them is the shadow of death, or the darkest night; they love darkness rather than light:

if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death; they are frightened unto death, they are in as great terror as a man is to whom death is the king of terrors; and who is sensible of the near approach of it, the plain and manifest symptoms of it being upon him: this is the case of the murderer, adulterer, and thief, when they are caught in the fact; or are known by such who are capable of giving notice of them, detecting them, and bearing witness against them: or "he", each and everyone of these, "knows the terrors of the shadow of death" x; the darkest night, which strikes terrors into others, is known by them, is delighted in by them, is familiar with them, and friendly to them, and is as pleasing as the brightest day to others.

w Pariter, Pagninus, Montanus, c. x יכיר בלהות צלמות "agnoscit terrores umbrae mortis", Mercerus, Cocceius so Codurcus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death - They dread the light as one does usually the deepest darkness. The morning or light would reveal their deeds of wickedness, and they therefore avoid it.

As the shadow of death - As the deepest darkness; see the notes at Job 3:5.

If one know them - If they are recognized. Or, more probably, this means “they,” that is, each one of them, “are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death,” or with the deepest darkness. By this rendering the common signification of the word (יכיר yakı̂yr) will be retained, and the translation will accord with the general sense of the passage. The meaning is, that they are familiar with the blackest night. They do not dread it. They dread only the light of day. To others the darkness is terrible; to them it is familiar. The word rendered “shadow of death” in the latter part of this verse, is the same as in the former. It may mean in both places the gloomy night that resembles the shadow, of death. Such a night is “terrible” to most people, to them it is familiar, and they feel secure only when its deep shades are round about them.


 
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