Job 24:17
What does Job 24:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 24:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862When together, morning <FI>is<Fi> to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Revelation 6:16
and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
- Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
- Psalms 73:18
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
- 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;
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