Job 24:18

WEB

¹⁸“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

KJV

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

BSB

¹⁸They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

FBV

¹⁸Like bubbles^[+] on the surface of a river they are quickly carried away. The land they own is cursed by God. They don't enter their own vineyards.

Extra References

Psalms 58:7

⁷Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Job 9:26

²⁶They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

¹⁸Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. ¹⁹How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. ²⁰As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord,^[+] when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Job 22:16

¹⁶who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Malachi 2:2

²If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says the LORD of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Psalms 69:22

²²Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Deuteronomy 28:16-20

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field. ¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. ¹⁸The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed. ¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out. ²⁰The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

Isaiah 23:10

¹⁰Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

Proverbs 3:33

³³The LORD’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.