Job 24:17 · KJV
“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 the dark they dig through houses, {which} they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
He {is} swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Job 24 — Context
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth {his} face. {disguiseth...: Heb. setteth his face in secret}
16In the dark they dig through houses, {which} they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17For 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.
18He {is} swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {so doth} the grave {those which} have sinned. {consume: Heb. violently take}
Cross References
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. {stain: or, challenge} {let the...: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day}
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.
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,
Psalms 73:18-19
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
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: