Job 24:18

He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

17But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

19As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue the sinners.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:16Cursed shalt thou bee in the towne, and cursed also in the fielde.

Job 9:26They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

Psalms 58:7Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.

Psalms 73:18Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

Isaiah 23:10Passe through thy lande like a flood to the daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

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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