Job 24:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 28:16-20 : 16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20 The LORD shall send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand unto for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken Me.
  • Job 9:26 : 26 They pass away like swift ships: like the eagle hastening to the prey.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?
  • Ps 58:7 : 7 Let them melt away as waters that run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be cut in pieces.
  • Ps 69:22 : 22 Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked: but he blesses the dwelling of the just.
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Flow through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already because you do not take it to heart.

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  • 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does the grave those who have sinned.

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

  • 4The flood breaks out from the dweller; even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from mankind.

  • 15Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up: also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • 20Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

  • 6They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

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

    17His memory 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 comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 4How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'

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

  • Ps 107:33-34
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    33He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground;

    34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who 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:

  • 11They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst.

  • 4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

  • 18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • Ps 58:8-9
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    8As a snail that melts, 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, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

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

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

  • 14So that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, nor set their top among the thick boughs, nor any tree stand up to its height, all that drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

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

  • Job 22:15-16
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    15Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

    16Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

  • 11As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up,

  • Job 24:23-24
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    23Though it be given him to be in safety, on which he rests, yet his eyes are on their ways.

    24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are removed out of the way like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.

  • 24Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, 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 those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • 10Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full cup are drained by them.

  • 17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

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

  • 7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

  • 21He does evil to the barren who does not bear, and shows no kindness to the widow.

  • 20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • 11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

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

  • 19The waters wear away the stones; You wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth, and You destroy 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 pours out the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain and drink.

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

  • 6Like valleys they spread out, like gardens by the riverside, like trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, and like 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 drinks up a river and is not afraid; he trusts that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

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

  • 12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.