Job 24:19
Drought—also heat—consume snow-waters, || Sheol—[those who] have sinned.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
In Context
Cross References
Job 6:15My brothers have deceived as a brook, || As a stream of brooks they pass away.
Job 21:23This [one] dies in his perfect strength, || Wholly at ease and quiet.
Psalms 49:14They have set themselves as sheep for Sheol, || Death afflicts them, || And the upright rule over them in the morning, || And their form [is] for consumption. Sheol [is] a dwelling for him.
Psalms 68:2You drive them away as the driving away of smoke, || As the melting of wax before fire, || The wicked perish at the presence of God.
Ecclesiastes 9:4But [to] him who is joined to all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it [is] better than to the dead lion.
Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers into the bosom of Abraham—and the rich man also died, and was buried;
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 →