Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
New American Standard Bible
For he is familiar with the
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!
International Standard Version
As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend."
A Conservative Version
For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
American Standard Version
For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Amplified
“For the morning is the same to him as the thick darkness [of midnight];
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
Darby Translation
For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
Julia Smith Translation
For the morning altogether to them the shadow of death: if it shall be known, the terrors of the shadow of death.
King James 2000
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one recognizes them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about [the] terrors of deep darkness.
Modern King James verseion
For the morning is to them like the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.
NET Bible
For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
New Heart English Bible
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
The Emphasized Bible
For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.
Webster
For the morning is to them even as the shades of death: if one knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shades of death.
World English Bible
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Youngs Literal Translation
When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
Themes
Exaltation » Who is exalted for a little while
Forgetting » Who shall be forgotten
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light. 17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark. 18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
Names
Cross References
Job 3:5
Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Psalm 73:18-19
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;
2 Corinthians 5:10-11
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
Revelation 6:16-17
And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: