“He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.”
Job 24:18 (KJV) |
Job 24:18
From Job 24, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.