Job 24:20
Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.
21For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.
Cross References
Job 17:14If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
Job 19:26And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.
Isaiah 26:14Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and best destroyed all their memory.
Matthew 3:10For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast 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 →