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Job 24:18

Verse 18 of 25. The 24th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

20The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

21He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.