Job 24:17

In 11 translations

BSB

For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

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.

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.

LSV

When together, morning [is] death-shade to them, || When he discerns the terrors of death-shade.

YLT

When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

DBY

For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

DRC

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

GNV

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.

JPS

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

LXXE

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.

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WLC

כִּ֤י יַחְדָּ֨ו ׀ בֹּ֣קֶר לָ֣מוֹ צַלְמָ֑וֶת כִּֽי־יַ֝כִּ֗יר בַּלְה֥וֹת צַלְמָֽוֶת׃

LXX-Br

Ὅτι ὁμοθυμαδὸν αὐτοῖς τὸ πρωῒ σκιὰ θανάτου, ὅτι ἐπιγνώσεται τάραχος σκιᾶς θανάτου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
• 2 Corinthians 5:10–11For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad. Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to…
• Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
• Revelation 6:16–17And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to…
• Psalms 73:18–19Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

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