A moment in scripture
Job 24:17
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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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The surrounding passage
- Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
- Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- Job 24:18
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
- Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.