Job 24:18
World English Bible (WEB)
“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
In context
16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18 “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
Job 24:18 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
- KJV King James Version
- He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Light he [is] on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.
- DBY Darby Translation
- He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.
- WBS Webster Bible
- He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.