Job 24:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 other, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

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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

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

Job 8:22

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

Psalm 37:10

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.

Psalm 73:19

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

James 1:11

For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.