Job 24:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ The womb shall forget him, the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered, and unrighteousness shall be broken like a tree [which cannot be healed]. [Prov. 10:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The womb forgets them; the worm consumes them; they aren’t remembered, and so wickedness is shattered like a tree.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Let mercy forget him. His charm is worms. Let him not be remembered, but instead be broken like an unfruitful tree.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness. Let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.

Job 24:20 Cross References

Job 17:14

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

Job 19:10

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; he has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Proverbs 10:7

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

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice; they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live; shades do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget, yet I will not forget you.

Daniel 4:14

He cried aloud and said: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from beneath it and the birds from its branches.

Matthew 3:10

Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.