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

²⁴ They are exalted a little while and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ They 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Common English Bible

²⁴ They are exalted for a short time, but no longer. They are humbled then gathered in like everyone else; cut off like heads of grain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ They are lifted up for a little while, but they will not continue, and they will be brought low, just like all things, and they will be taken away, and, like the tops of the ears of grain, they will be crushed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away: and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.

Job 24:24 Cross References

Job 14:21

Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.

Job 8:22

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Psalm 37:10

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.

Psalm 73:19

How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,

James 1:11

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.