Job 24:20

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Proverbs 10:7

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

Daniel 4:14

He proclaimed aloud and said thus: ‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.

Matthew 3:10

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Isaiah 26:14

They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

Job 19:26

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 17:14

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

Job 3:13

For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,

Job 19:10

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

Job 21:26

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

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.