Verse | Translation | Text |
Job 24:17 | Strong Concordance | For the morning [01242] is to them even as [03162] the shadow of death [06757]: if one know [05234] them, they are in the terrors [01091] of the shadow of death [06757]. |
King James | 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. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
They shrink from the "morning" light, as much as other men do from the blackest darkness ("the shadow of death"). if one know--that is, recognize them. 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. |