I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Job 24:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The womb forgets them; the worm consumes them; they aren’t remembered, and so wickedness is shattered like a tree. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness. Let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree. |
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
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 were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
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.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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:
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.