If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
Job 24:20 - Revised Version 1885 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. 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. |
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone: And mine hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, Yet from my flesh shall I see God:
For now should I have lain down 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 withal I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is 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, these may forget, yet will not I 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 even now is the axe laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.