Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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
Nakar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
16
“In the dark they dig into [the penetrable walls of] houses;
They shut themselves up by day;
They do not know the light [of day].
“For the morning is the same to him as the thick darkness [of midnight];
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
“They are insignificant on the surface of the water;
Their portion is cursed on the earth;
They do not turn toward the vineyards.
Names
Cross References
Job 3:5
“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
Psalm 73:18-19
Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Jeremiah 2:26
“As the thief is shamed when he is caught,
So the house of Israel is shamed—
They, their kings, their leaders,
Their priests, and their prophets—
2 Corinthians 5:10-11
For we [believers will be called to account and] must all appear before the
Revelation 6:16-17
and they called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the [righteous] wrath and indignation of the Lamb;