Job 24:18
Good News Translation
The wicked are swept away by floods, and the land they own is under God's curse; they no longer go to work in their vineyards.

New Revised Standard Version
“Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

Contemporary English Version
Those sinners are filthy foam on the surface of the water. And so, their fields and vineyards will fall under a curse and won't produce.

New American Bible
He is swift on the surface of the water: their portion in the land is accursed, they do not turn aside by way of the vineyards.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.

swift

Psalm 58:7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Isaiah 23:10 Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more.

their portion

Deuteronomy 28:16-20 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field. . . .

Psalm 69:22 Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

Proverbs 3:33 He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
17If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light. 18He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.19Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.…
Cross References
Job 5:3
I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

Job 22:11
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

Job 22:16
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Job 24:6
They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

Job 24:11
They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.

Job 27:20
Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

Job 24:17
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