“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.”
For all of them, morning is as deep darkness to them; for they know the terrors of deep darkness, and they go about in it, suggesting that the wicked exist in perpetual moral darkness regardless of the time of day, unable to see or acknowledge ethical reality. The terrors of deep darkness—the fears and horrors associated with moral blindness—become the wicked's constant companions, suggesting that even their escape from detection brings no peace. The assertion that they go about in this darkness suggests that the wicked have become so accustomed to moral blindness that they navigate it as their normal condition. This verse implies that the wicked's punishment is partly self-inflicted: their corruption has so damaged their moral perception that they inhabit a landscape of constant dread.
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