Job 24:18

Swift is he on the face of the waters, Speedily vanished their share in the land, He turneth not to the way of the vineyards.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.

19Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:16Cursed, shalt thou be in the city,—and cursed, shalt thou be in the field:

Job 9:26They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture [which] rusheth upon food.

Psalms 58:7Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:

Psalms 73:18Surely, in slippery places, dost thou set them,—Thou hast suffered them to fall into places of danger.

Isaiah 23:10Pass through thy land as the Nile,—O daughter of Tarshish, there is no restraint any longer!

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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