Job 24:20 “The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no…”

Job 24:20

The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shall feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remembered, and the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.

Darby Translation

The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, —

Young's Literal Translation

Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten [on] him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“the worm”

Job 17:14 Job 19:26

Job 17:14 · BSB

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 19:26 · BSB

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

“he shall be”

Proverbs 10:7 Ecclesiastes 8:10 Isaiah 26:14

Proverbs 10:7 · BSB

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Ecclesiastes 8:10 · BSB

Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

Isaiah 26:14 · BSB

The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.

“wickedness”

Daniel 4:14 Job 14:7–10 Matthew 3:10 Job 18:16 Job 18:17

Daniel 4:14 · BSB

He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

Job 14:7–10 · BSB

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

Matthew 3:10 · BSB

The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Job 18:16 · BSB

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Job 18:17 · BSB

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

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