Job 24:18

Light are they on the face of the waters; They have an accursed portion in the earth; They come not near the vineyards.

Noyes Bible

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

17The morning is to them the very shadow of death; They are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

19As drought and heat consume the snow waters, So doth the grave the wicked.

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Cross References

Job 9:26They have gone by like the reed-skiffs; Like the eagle, darting upon his prey.

Psalms 58:7May they melt like waters, which flow away; May their arrows, when they aim them, be as if cut in pieces!

Psalms 73:18Behold! thou hast set them on slippery places; Thou castest them down into unseen pits.

Isaiah 23:10Go over thy land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish! Now thy bonds are broken.

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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