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Job 24:17 KJV
Job · chapter 24 · verse 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.Job 24:17 · King James Version
Job 24:17 in context
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- morningbôqerproperly, dawnH1242 →
- terrorsballâhâhalarmH1091 →
- deathtsalmâvethshade of deathH6757 →
- knownâkarproperly, to scrutinizeH5234 →
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These verses describe another sort of sinners who therefore go unpunished, because they go undiscovered. They rebel against the light, Job 24:13. Some understand it figuratively: they sin against the light of nature, the light of God's law, and that of their own consciences;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-17