17For all of them, deep darkness is their morning ; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.


In Context

14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.

15 The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.

16 In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.

17 For all of them, deep darkness is their morning ; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.

18 "Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.

19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.

Job 24:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:17For 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:17If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:17For the morning is to all of them as the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17For 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:17For 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.