They are swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: no one turns into the way of the vineyards.
All Commentaries on Job 24:18 Go To Job 24
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
He is light That is, the adulterer, that he may not be perceived and discovered, steps as nimbly and as light as if he were walking upon the waters. Or the sense is: he is as light, that is, as swift and nimble as the running waters.
By the way of the vineyards. That is, by the way where he may meet with fruit and blessings. (Challoner)
The wicked are always inconstant. (Calmet) (Isaias lvii. 29.)
He deserves no temporal nor eternal happiness. If he were deprived of the former, he might perhaps endeavour to escape the torments of hell. (Haydock)
