Job 24:20
Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
19Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
21For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.
Cross References
Job 17:14I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.
Job 19:26and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the just is praised; but the name of the ungodly man is extinguished.
Isaiah 26:14But the dead shall not see life, neither shall + 26:14 See Job 26. 5.physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;
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 →