Job 24:18 Cross References - CLV

¹⁸ This one has light work on the face of the waters; For others their portion is slight on the land; Not one is facing the way of the vineyards.

¹⁶ Cursed be you in the city, and cursed be you in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed be your basket and your kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed be the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beast, the calving of your domestic animals and the lambing of your flock. ¹⁹ Cursed be you in your coming in, and cursed be you in your going forth. ²⁰ Yahweh shall send the curse, the discomfiture and the rebuke on you in every undertaking of your hand that you shall do, until you are exterminated and you perish quickly, in view of the evil of your actions in which you have forsaken Me.

²⁶ They pass on like ships of bulrush, Like the vulture that pounces down on its food.

¹⁶ Who were arrested when not yet their time, When a stream was poured over their foundation,

⁷ May they melt like waters going away to their place; May He position His arrows that they be snipped off;

²² Let their table become a trap before them, And a repayment and a snare."

¹⁸ Surely You shall set them down in slippery places; You will cast them into ruinations. ¹⁹ How they will become a desolation, as in a moment! They will be swept up; they will be finished by decadence!" ²⁰ Like a dream when one is waking, O Yahweh, when rousing, You shall lay waste their phantom."

³³ The curse of Yahweh is on the house of the wicked, Yet He blesses the homestead of the righteous."

¹⁰ Pass! Serve your land as a waterway, daughter of Tharshish. There is no use for ships any longer."

² If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart to give glory to My name, says Yahweh of hosts, then I will send among you the curse. And I will curse your blessings. And, moreover, I have cursed them, and I will annul them, for you are not taking it to heart, and it shall not come among you."