Job 24:18

He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he turneth not by the way of the vineyards.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world 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 are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey.

Psalms 58:7(58-8) Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Psalms 73:18Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.

Isaiah 23:10Overflow thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish! there is no girdle 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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