Job 24:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ “Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ He is swift as the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: He beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ [You say] Swiftly such men pass away on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; [no treader] turns into their vineyards.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ They are scum on the water’s surface; their portion of the land is cursed; no one walks down a path in the vineyards.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ He is nimble on the surface of water. His place on land is to be accursed. May he not walk by way of the vineyards.

Job 24:18 Cross References

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.

Isaiah 23:10

Cross over to your own land, O ships of Tarshish; this is a harbor no more.

Proverbs 3:33

The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.

Psalm 69:22

Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.

Psalm 58:7

Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

Job 9:26

They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

Job 5:3

I have seen fools taking root, but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.

Job 22:11

or darkness so that you cannot see; a flood of water covers you.

Job 24:6

They reap in a field not their own, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Job 24:11

between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake them like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries them off.