Job 24:18

Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

In Context

17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:16Cursed shall thou be in the city, and cursed shall thou be in the field.

Job 9:26They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Psalms 58:7Let them melt away as water that runs with haste. When he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off,

Psalms 73:18Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.

Isaiah 23:10Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, there is no restraint any more.

Matthew Henry on Job 24:14-18

Present Impunity of Transgressors. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to… Read the whole commentary →

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