Job 24:18

King James Version 1611 (Original)

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

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  • Deut 28:16-20 : 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
  • Job 9:26 : 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
  • Ps 58:7 : 7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
  • Ps 69:22 : 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

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  • 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

  • 17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

  • 15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • 20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

  • 6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  • Job 18:16-18
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    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

  • 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

  • Ps 107:33-34
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    33He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

    34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

  • 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

  • 11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

  • 4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

  • 18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • Ps 58:8-9
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    8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

    9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

  • 14And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • 14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

  • 25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

  • Job 22:15-16
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    15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

    16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

  • 11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

  • Job 24:23-24
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    23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

    24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

  • 24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • 22For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

  • 10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

  • 17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

  • 17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

  • 21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

  • 20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • 11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

  • 8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

  • 18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • 6As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

  • 14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • 23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

  • 8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

  • 12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.