Job 24:18

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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 all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:16You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.

Job 9:26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Psalms 58:7Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Psalms 73:18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Isaiah 23:10Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

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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