Job 24:18
He [is] light on the face of the waters, || Their portion is vilified in the earth, || He does not turn the way of vineyards.
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In The King James Version
In Context
17When together, morning [is] death-shade to them, || When he discerns the terrors of death-shade.
19Drought—also heat—consume snow-waters, || Sheol—[those who] have sinned.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:16Cursed [are] you in the city, and cursed [are] you in the field.
Job 9:26They have passed on with ships of reed, || As an eagle darts on food.
Psalms 58:7They are melted as waters, || They go up and down for themselves, || His arrow proceeds as they cut themselves off.
Psalms 73:18Surely You set them in slippery places, || You have caused them to fall to desolations.
Isaiah 23:10Pass through your land as a brook, || Daughter of Tarshish, || There is no longer a girdle.
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 →