Job 24:20 · KJV
“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.”
— Job 24:20
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {so doth} the grave {those which} have sinned. {consume: Heb. violently take}
He evil entreateth the barren {that} beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job 24 — Context
He {is} swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {so doth} the grave {those which} have sinned. {consume: Heb. violently take}
20The 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.
21He evil entreateth the barren {that} beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no {man} is sure of life. {no...: or, he trusteth not his own life}
Cross References
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just {is} blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Daniel 4:14
He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: {aloud: Chaldee, with might}
Job 18:16-17
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this {is} also vanity.
Job 19:26
And {though} after my skin {worms} destroy this {body}, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}
Matthew 3:10
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
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 their memory to perish.
Job 14:7-10
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.