Job 24:20

Job chapter 24 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Context

v.19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So dothSheolthose thathave sinned.

v.20This passage

v.21He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 10:7

    The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.

  • Matthew 3:10

    And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

  • Job 17:14

    If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;

  • Daniel 4:14

    He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

  • Job 19:26

    And after my skin, eventhisbody, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

  • Isaiah 26:14

    They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.