Job 24:24 · KJV
“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. {are gone: Heb. are not} {taken...: Heb. closed up}”
— Job 24:24
{Though} it be given him {to be} in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes {are} upon their ways.
And if {it be} not {so} now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Job 24 — Context
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no {man} is sure of life. {no...: or, he trusteth not his own life}
23{Though} it be given him {to be} in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes {are} upon their ways.
24They 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. {are gone: Heb. are not} {taken...: Heb. closed up}
25And if {it be} not {so} now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Cross References
Psalms 37:10
For yet a little while, and the wicked {shall} not {be}: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it {shall} not {be}.
Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; {it is} that they shall be destroyed for ever:
James 5:1-3
Go to now, {ye} rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon {you}.
James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}
Isaiah 17:5-6
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Psalms 73:19
How are they {brought} into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked {is} short, and the joy of the hypocrite {but} for a moment? {short: Heb. from near}