Job 24:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For midnight is morning to all of them; for they are familiar with the terrors of deep darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Deep darkness is morning to them because they recognize the horror of darkness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ If sunrise should suddenly appear, it is treated by them like the shadow of death; and they walk in darkness, as if in light.

Job 24:17 Cross References

Job 3:5

Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Jeremiah 2:26

As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,

Isaiah 28:19

As often as it passes through, it will take you, for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night, and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.”

1 Kings 3:20

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant slept. She laid him at her breast and laid her dead son at my breast.

Job 38:13

so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?