Job 24:18

He is swift on the face of the water: 1 Let his portion be cursed on the earth; 1 And let their plants be laid bare. 1

Updated 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, 1 For each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death. 1

19Let them be withered upon the earth; 1 For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless. 1

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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? 1 Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey? 1

Psalms 58:7They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city. 1

Psalms 73:18Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, 1 And a foolish people has provoked thy name. 1

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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