Job 24:18

He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.

Darby Translation

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 them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

19Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

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Cross References

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

Job 9:26They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

Psalms 58:7Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:

Psalms 73:18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.

Isaiah 23:10Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.

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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