Job 24:20
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.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 24 connects to 10 cross-references. Job asks why the Almighty does not set times of judgment in which the wicked are punished. He catalogs injustices that God apparently tolerates: the wicked move boundary stones, oppress the poor, take widows as pledges, and murderers operate under …
Other Translations
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.
Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten <FI>on<Fi> him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.
The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
Cross References
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the …
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they …
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed …
He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and …