Job 24:18

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Swift upon the surface of the waters they are; their portion is cursed in the land; they do not turn to the way of the vineyards.

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  • Deut 28:16-20 : 16 Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field. 17 Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks. 19 Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out. 20 The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.
  • Job 9:26 : 26 They pass by like reed boats, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundation was swept away by a flood.
  • Ps 58:7 : 7 Break their teeth in their mouths, O God! LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions.
  • Ps 69:22 : 22 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely, You place them on slippery ground; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors! 20 Like a dream when one awakes, so, Lord, when You arise, You will despise their image.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbor restraining you.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you do not listen and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not take it to heart.

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  • 19As drought and heat consume the snow waters, so Sheol consumes those who have sinned.

  • 17For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 4He cuts a shaft far from where people dwell; forgotten by travelers, they dangle and swing to and fro far from humankind.

  • 15"If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth."

  • 20Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • 6In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17but when they are warmed, they vanish; when heated, they disappear from their place.

    18Caravans turn aside from their paths; they go into the wasteland and perish.

  • Job 18:16-18
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    16His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the public square.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • 6They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

  • 4How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.'

  • 17He will not see the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and butter.

  • Ps 107:33-34
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    33He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into parched ground,

    34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

  • 32Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are poisonous, and their clusters are bitter.

  • 11They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.

  • 4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.

  • 18They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.

  • Ps 58:8-9
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    8May they vanish like water that flows away; when they aim their arrows, may they be blunted.

    9Like a slug that melts away as it moves, like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He will no longer be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread out across the land.

    30He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his branch, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

  • 14In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • 14This happened so that no trees beside the abundant waters may grow tall enough to reach the clouds, nor lift their tops among the thick branches, and no trees that drink water will stand before them in their height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the lower earth, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.

  • 25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away and do not see any good.

  • Job 22:15-16
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    15Will you keep to the ancient path that wicked men have walked?

    16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundation was swept away by a flood.

  • 11As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

  • Job 24:23-24
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    23He allows them to rest in security, but His eyes are on their ways.

    24They are exalted for a little while, but then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, and like the heads of grain, they are cut off.

  • 24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

  • 22For those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by Him will be cut off.

  • 10Therefore His people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.

  • 17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • 7The new wine dries up, the vine withers, and all the merry-hearted groan.

  • 21He preys on the barren woman who does not bear children, and he does no good to the widow.

  • 20From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

  • 11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • 20Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink from the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 19as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil of the earth, so you destroy the hope of man.

  • 8For God is the judge; he brings one down and lifts another up.

  • 18Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

  • 6Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens along a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.

  • 14They come in as through a wide breach; chaos rolls in like a wave under the crash of destruction.

  • 23If the river roars, he is not alarmed; he is confident, even when the Jordan rushes against his mouth.

  • 8But with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his enemies into darkness.

  • 12While still in their greenness and not cut down, they wither more quickly than any grass.