Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
New American Standard Bible
Moreover, they are
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.
They wither like heads of grain.
International Standard Version
They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.
American Standard Version
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Amplified
“They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything [they are] gathered up and taken out of the way;
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.
Bible in Basic English
For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.
Darby Translation
They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Julia Smith Translation
They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off.
King James 2000
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.
Modern King James verseion
They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They are exalted for a little, but shortly are they gone, brought to extreme poverty, and taken out of the way: yea, and utterly plucked off, as the ears of corn.
NET Bible
They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'
New Heart English Bible
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
The Emphasized Bible
They are exalted a little, and are not, Yea having been laid low, like all men, are they gathered, Even as the top of an ear of corn, do they hang down.
Webster
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
World English Bible
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Youngs Literal Translation
High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.
Interlinear
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
23 [God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways. 24 They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. 25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 37:10
For yet a little while, and the wicked man shall not be. Yea, thou shall diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.
Job 8:22
Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?
Psalm 37:35-36
I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalm 73:19
How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,
Isaiah 17:5-6
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears. Yea, it shall be as when he gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.
James 1:11
For the sun rose up with the burning heat, and withered the grass. And the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished. So also the rich man will fade away among his pursuits.
James 5:1-3
Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.
Revelation 14:14-20
And I looked, and behold, a white cloud. And sitting upon the cloud, like a son of man, having a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.