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Job 24:17 Cross-References
Explore 5 cross-references for Job 24:17 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 24 verse 17 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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.”
Job 24:17 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 24:17
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death—Job employs powerful irony: while normal people dread darkness, the wicked fear daylight. "Morning" (boqer, בֹּקֶר) typically symbolizes deliverance and divine favor (Psalm 30:5, "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning"). But for evildoers, dawn brings "the shadow of death" (tsalmaveth, צַלְמָוֶת), the same term describing deep darkness and mortal danger (Psalm 23:4). Their moral inversion is complete.If one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death—Exposure terrifies the wicked more than death itself...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 24:17
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“Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.”
“according to what he has done”
“Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,,And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:,,,,,,,,”
“so is the house of Israel ashamed; they”
“Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.”