Job 24:17

For the morning, &c.— Surely the morning was to him altogether the shadow of death; because he saw before his eyes the terrors of the shadow of death. In this and the next verse, says Mr. Heath, is a fine description of the terror and perplexity of the inhabitants of the old world, at the approach of the waters of the deluge. They run to and fro; neglect the only apparent means of saving themselves; they cannot find the way to the high grounds till their retreat is absolutely cut off, and they are destroyed, as at all events they must have been.