Job 24:17 BSB — MannaFest

Job 24:17

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

BSB

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ASV

For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death - They dread the light as one does usually the deepest darkness. The morning or light would reveal their deeds of wickedness, and they therefore avoid it. As the shadow of death - As the deepest darkness; see the notes at Job 3:5. If one know them - If they are recognized. Or, more probably, this means “they,” that is, each one of them, “are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death,” or with the deepest darkness.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rather, "They know well (are familiar with) the terrors of," &c. [UMBREIT]. Or, as MAURER, "They know the terrors of (this) darkness," namely, of morning, the light, which is as terrible to them as darkness ("the shadow of death") is to other men.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
יַחְדָּ֨ו׀	yach.Dav	together	H3162 →
בֹּ֣קֶר	Bo.ker	[is] morning	H1242 →
לָ֣מוֹ	la.mo	for them
צַלְמָ֑וֶת	tzal.Ma.vet	deep darkness	H6757 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
יַ֝כִּ֗יר	ya.Kir	he is acquainted with	H5234 →
בַּלְה֥וֹת	bal.Hot	[the] terrors of	H1091 →
צַלְמָֽוֶת׃	tzal.Ma.vet	deep darkness	H6757 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 3:5
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
leads to
- Job 10:21–22
  before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
- Job 28:3
  Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
- Jeremiah 2:6
  They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought…
- Psalms 23:4
  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
- Deuteronomy 4:11
  You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
Through
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
leads to
- Nehemiah 9:32–34
  So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders,…
- Ezra 9:7
  From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of…
- Jeremiah 32:32
  because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents…

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