Holy Scripture
Job 24:18
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“Second, they put great faith in a small and frail thing, and so he says, "he," the adulterer, "is light on the surface of the waters," as if to say: He moves so lightly that it seems to him that he can pursue his own will as though he were sailing on calm seas. Or one can also explain the literal sense, "they walk in…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18He is swift on the face of the water: Let his portion be cursed on the earth; And let their plants be laid bare.
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16In darkness he digs through houses: By day they conceal themselves securely: They know not the light.
17For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, For each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
— Job 24:18 —
19Let them be withered upon the earth; For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
20Then is his sin brought to remembrance, And he vanishes like a vapor of dew: But let what he has done be recompensed to him, And let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.