Job 24:17
If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis : et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ὁμοθυμαδὸν αὐτοῖς τὸ πρωὶ σκιὰ θανάτου, ὅτι ἐπιγνώσεται τάραχος σκιᾶς θανάτου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֤י יַחְדָּ֨ו בֹּ֣קֶר לָ֣מוֹ צַלְמָ֑וֶת כִּֽי יַ֝כִּ֗יר בַּלְה֥וֹת צַלְמָֽוֶת
Haydock's commentary
Death. They are as much afraid of the light as others are of profound darkness. (Calmet)
They dread being detected. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.