Job 24:18

He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.

Brenton Septuagint

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 each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

19Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

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Cross References

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

Job 9:26Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

Psalms 58:7They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.

Psalms 73:18Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

Isaiah 23:10Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

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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