The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 18

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;

[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

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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.

King James Version

He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

American Standard Version

Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

New English Translation

“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

World English Bible

"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into 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.

He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.

[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?