Job 24:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
  • Jer 2:26 : 26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;
  • 2 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad. 11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.
  • Rev 6:16-17 : 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 24:13-16
    4 verses
    87%

    13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

    14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

    15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

  • 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • 18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • 19 Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.

  • 22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Job 3:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

    9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

    24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

  • 20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

  • Job 22:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

  • 9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

  • 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

  • 10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

  • 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • 12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • 20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

  • 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

  • 3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • 25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

  • 6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • 3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • 22 For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?