Job 24:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ “You say, ‘They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ 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.

Job 24:18 Cross References

Job 22:11

your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 22:16

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

Job 24:11

among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

Job 24:6

They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

Job 27:20

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

Job 5:3

I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

Job 9:26

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

Psalm 58:7

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

Psalm 69:22

Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.

Proverbs 3:33

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

Isaiah 23:10

Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.

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 upon you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.