Job 24:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

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  • Ps 49:14 : 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
  • Job 21:13 : 13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
  • Job 21:23 : 23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
  • Job 21:32-34 : 32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. 33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him. 34 Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
  • Job 6:15-17 : 15 My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end: 16 Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them; 17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.
  • Ps 58:8-9 : 8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun. 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
  • Eccl 9:4-6 : 4 For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them. 6 Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • Luke 16:22 : 22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

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  • 18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • 20 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.

  • Job 6:16-18
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    16 Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

    17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

    18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Job 14:11-12
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    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • 4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 16 The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

  • 11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Hos 13:14-15
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    14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

    15 Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.

  • 19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • 7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • 34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

  • 8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

  • 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • 17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • 24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • 14 Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry?

  • Job 26:5-6
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    5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

    6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

  • 9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

  • 30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • 28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

  • 14 In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.

  • 18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • 12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • 18 And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

  • 22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • 14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

  • Isa 14:19-20
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    19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

    20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • 6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

  • 12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

  • 10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

  • 30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • 4 He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

  • 9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

  • 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.