Job 24:18
They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Job 9:26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Psalms 58:7May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Isaiah 23:10Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.
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 →