Job 24:20
The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
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In Context
19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.
21He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.
Cross References
Job 17:14If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Job 19:26And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
Isaiah 26:14The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.
Matthew 3:10And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
Matthew Henry on Job 24:19-25
Ultimate Ruin of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. 21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he… Read the whole commentary →