Job 24:18-25
1599 Geneva Bible
18 He is swift upon the [a]waters: their [b]portion shall be cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyards.
19 As the dry ground and heat consume the snow waters, so shall the grave [c]the sinners.
20 [d]The pitiful man shall forget him: the worm shall feel his sweetness: he shall be no more remembered, and the wicked shall be broken like a tree.
21 He [e]doth evil entreat the barren that doth not bear, neither doeth he good to the widow.
22 He draweth also the [f]mighty by his power, and when he riseth up, none is sure of life.
23 Though men give him assurance to be in safety, yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little, but they are gone, and are brought low as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the top of an ear of corn.
25 But if it be not [g]so, where is he? or who will prove me a liar, and make my words of no value?
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- Job 24:18 He fleeth to the waters for his succor.
- Job 24:18 They think that all the world is bent against them, and dare not go by the high way.
- Job 24:19 As the dry ground is never full with waters, so will they never cease sinning till they come to the grave.
- Job 24:20 Though God suffer the wicked for a time, yet their end shall be most vile destruction, and in this point Job commiteth to himself, and showeth his confidence.
- Job 24:21 He showeth why the wicked shall not be lamented, because he did not pity others.
- Job 24:22 He declareth that after that the wicked have destroyed the weakest, they will do like to the stranger, and therefore are justly punished by God’s judgments.
- Job 24:25 That is, that contrary to your reasoning no man can give perfect reasons of God’s judgments, let me be reproved.
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