Job 24:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:16-20 : 16 You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field. 17 A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. 18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. 20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.
  • Job 9:26 : 26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
  • Ps 58:7 : 7 Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.
  • Ps 69:22 : 22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. 20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

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    19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • Job 24:17
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    17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Job 28:4
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    4He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • Job 12:15
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    15Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Job 27:20
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    20Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • Job 24:6
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    6They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

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  • Job 18:16-18
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    16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

    17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

    18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Job 20:17
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    17Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

  • Ps 107:33-34
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    33He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

    34He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

  • Deut 32:32
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    32For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:

  • Job 24:11
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    11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Nah 1:4
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    4He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

  • Job 21:18
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    18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • Ps 58:8-9
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    8Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

    9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

    30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • Ezek 31:14
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    14In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.

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    25My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

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    15Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

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  • Job 14:11
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    11The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

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    23He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

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    24They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

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    22Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

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    10For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

  • Joel 1:17
    72%

    17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

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    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

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    7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

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    21He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

  • Job 4:20
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    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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  • Job 21:20
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    20Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

  • Job 14:19
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    19The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

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    8For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

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    18For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • Num 24:6
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    6They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

  • Job 30:14
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    14As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

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    23Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

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    8But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

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    12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.