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17 Deep darkness is morning to them
    because they recognize the horror of darkness.
18 They are scum on the water’s surface;
    their portion of the land is cursed;
    no one walks down a path in the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat steal melted snow,
    just as the underworld[a] steals sinners.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:19 Heb Sheol

17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors(A) of darkness.(B)

18 “Yet they are foam(C) on the surface of the water;(D)
    their portion of the land is cursed,(E)
    so that no one goes to the vineyards.(F)
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,(G)
    so the grave(H) snatches away those who have sinned.

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