And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
Job 24:17 - Revised Standard Version For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
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.
“As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,