Job 24:18
Like bubbles on the surface of a river they are quickly carried away. The land they own is cursed by God. They don't enter their own vineyards.
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In Context
17Total darkness is like light to them, for they are familiar with the night.
19Just as heat and drought dry up snowmelt, so Sheol takes away those who have sinned.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:16You will be cursed when you're in the town; you will be cursed when you're in the countryside.
Job 9:26They pass by like fast sailing ships, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Psalms 58:7May they vanish like water that flows away; when they shoot their arrows may they miss their mark.
Psalms 73:18For you send them on a slippery path; you throw them down to destruction.
Isaiah 23:10Work your land, people of Tarshish, as they do beside the Nile, for you don't have a harbor anymore.
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 →