Job 24:17

Modern

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

Traditional

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.

Literal

For the morning is for them together the shadow of death—for one regards the terrors of the shadow of death!

Latin

Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis: et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.

Hebrew

English

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

This list of criminal behaviors first emphasizes crimes against weak people (24:2–12). Then it examines the criminals themselves (24:13–17).

Theme notes and profiles

Job 3:5
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Revelation 6:16–17
And 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.
Jeremiah 2:26
As 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
Psalm 73:18–19
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
2 Corinthians 5:10–11
For 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.