Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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 night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light. 17 For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness. 18 "The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.
Names
Cross References
Job 3:5
but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.
Psalm 73:18-19
Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.
Jeremiah 2:26
Like as a thief that is taken with the deed cometh to shame, even so is the house of Israel come to confusion: the common people, their kings and rulers, their priests and prophets.
2 Corinthians 5:10-11
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every man may receive the works of his body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Revelation 6:16-17
and said to the hills, and rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the seat, and from the wrath of the lamb,