Job 24:20

Then is his sin brought to remembrance, 1 And he vanishes like a vapor of dew: 1 But let what he has done be recompensed to him, 1 And let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19Let them be withered upon the earth; 1 For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless. 1

21For he has not treated the barren woman well, 1 And has had no pity on a feeble woman. 1

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Cross References

Job 17:14I have called upon death to be my father, 1 And corruption to be my mother and sister. 1

Job 19:26And to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: 1 For these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; 1

Proverbs 10:7The memory of the just is praised; 1 But the name of the ungodly man is extinguished. 1

Isaiah 26:14But the dead shall not see life, neither shall 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 →

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