Job 24:18

Swift are such men [to flee] on the face of the water; accursed is their field on the land; none of them turneth himself to the way, of the vineyards.

Leeser Tanakh

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 to all of these alike is the morning as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

19Drought and heat speedily consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned.

Read all of Job 24

Cross References

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

Job 9:26They hasten along like pirate ships: like the eagle that stoopeth down upon his food.

Psalms 58:7(58:8) Let them melt away as water [which] runneth off: when each one bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as if cut in pieces.

Psalms 73:18Surely thou placest them on slippery spots: thou lettest them fall down into destruction.

Isaiah 23:10Pass through thy land as a stream, O daughter of Tharshish: there is no more strength.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Job 24:18