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Job 24:18

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18“1They are 2ainsignificant on the surface of the water;

Their portion is bcursed on the earth.

They do not turn 3toward the cvineyards.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Implied, they (Job’s friends) say; Job 24:18–21
  2. 2Or light, swift
  3. 3Lit to the path of

Cross references

  1. aJob 22:11, 16; 27:20
  2. bJob 5:3
  3. cJob 24:6, 11

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;

their portion is cursed in the land;

no treader turns toward their vineyards.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;

their portion of the land is cursed,

so that no one goes to the vineyards.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They float on the surface of the water.

Their section of the land is cursed,

so that they never go to their vineyards.

NLTNew Living Translation

“But they disappear like foam down a river.

Everything they own is cursed,

and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“He himself is swift on the water’s surface;

their portion is cursed in the land.

No one turns toward the path of their vineyards.

KJV 1900King James Version

He is swift as the waters;

Their portion is cursed in the earth:

He beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.