Job 24:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!”
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“For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“When together, morning <FI>is<Fi> to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 24:17 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 3:20So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
- Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
- Job 38:13that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
- Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- Jeremiah 2:26As 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
- 2 Corinthians 5:10For 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.
- Revelation 6:16And 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.
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