“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) |
Job 24:17
From Job 24, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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.
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.