Job 24:18

Light he [is] on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

Young's Literal Translation

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

17When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

19Drought — also heat — consume snow-waters, Sheol [those who] have sinned.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:16'Cursed [art] thou in the city, and cursed [art] thou in the field.

Job 9:26They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

Psalms 58:7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

Psalms 73:18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

Isaiah 23:10Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.

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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