Job 24:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

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  • Deut 28:16-20 : 16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed. 18 Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. 20 Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.
  • Job 9:26 : 26 They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?
  • Ps 58:7 : 7 Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!
  • Ps 69:22 : 22 May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin. 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! 20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
  • Isa 23:10 : 10 Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses– indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

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  • 19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • 17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • 4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • 15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • 20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

  • 6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

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

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

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

  • 6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • 4How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”

  • 17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

  • Ps 107:33-34
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    33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

    34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

  • 32For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.

  • 11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • 4He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.

  • 18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • Ps 58:8-9
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    8Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

    9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • 14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

  • 14For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the Pit.

  • 25Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

  • Job 22:15-16
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    15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

    16men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

  • 11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,

  • Job 24:23-24
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    23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

    24They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’

  • 24Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

  • 22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • 10Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.

  • 17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • 7The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.

  • 21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

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

  • 11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • 20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

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

  • 8For the LORD holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”

  • 18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

  • 6They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

  • 14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

  • 23If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

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

  • 12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!