And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
Job 24:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For the morning is to all of them as the shadow of death; For they know the terrors of the shadow of death More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For midnight is morning to all of them; for they are familiar with the terrors of deep darkness. American Standard Version (1901) For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness. Common English Bible Deep darkness is morning to them because they recognize the horror of darkness. Catholic Public Domain Version If sunrise should suddenly appear, it is treated by them like the shadow of death; and they walk in darkness, as if in light. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light. |
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him:
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.
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
As often as it passeth through, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.
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;