Job 24:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The pitifull man shall forget hym, he shalbe sweete to the wormes, he shalbe no more remembred, & his wickednesse shalbe broken as a tree.

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  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memoriall of the iust shall haue a good report: but the name of the vngodly shall stincke.
  • Dan 4:14 : 14 And cryed mightily, saying thus: Hew downe the tree, breake of his braunches, shake of his leaues, & scatter his fruite abroade: that the beastes may get them away from vnder hym, and the foules from his braunches.
  • Job 18:16-17 : 16 His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his braunche be cut downe. 17 His remembraunce shall perishe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And though after my skinne the wormes destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe:
  • Job 14:7-9 : 7 For if a tree be cut downe, there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe. 8 Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde: 9 Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted. 10 But as for man, when he is dead, perished, and consumed away, what becommeth of him?
  • Job 17:14 : 14 I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 Euen now is the axe also put vnto the roote of the trees: therefore, euery tree which bryngeth not foorth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 For I haue seene often the vngodly brought to their graues, and yet they haue returned into the citie agayne: and came from the place of holy men, whiche in the citie were growen out of memorie, as were those also that liued well: This is also a vayne thing.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead wyll not liue, they that be out of life will not ryse agayne, therfore hast thou visited and rooted them out, and destroyed all the memorie of them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 21 He hath oppressed the barren that can not beare, and vnto the wydow hath he done no good.

  • Job 18:16-19
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    16 His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his braunche be cut downe.

    17 His remembraunce shall perishe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.

    18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.

    19 He shall neither haue children nor kinsfolkes among his people, no nor any posteritie in his dwellinges.

  • Job 24:18-19
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    18 The vngodly is swyft vpon the water: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth, and he shall not beholde the way of the vineyardes.

    19 As the drye grounde and heate consume the snowye waters: so shall the graue the sinners.

  • Isa 14:19-20
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    19 And thou art cast out of thy graue like a fylthy abhominable braunche, like as dead mens rayment that are shot thorowe with the sworde, and go downe to the stones of the deepe, as a dead coarse that is troden vnder feete.

    20 Thou art not buried with them: euen because that thou hast wasted thy lande & destroyed thy people: The generation of the wicked shalbe out of memorie for euer.

  • Jer 20:16-17
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    16 Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not: Let hym heare crying in the morning, and at noone day lamentable howling.

    17 Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her?

  • Job 20:11-12
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    11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth.

    12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue.

  • 15 His remnaunt shalbe buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.

  • 21 In so much that his body is cleane consumed away, and his bones appeare which before were not seene.

  • 10 Nor turne againe into his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.

  • Job 20:7-9
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    7 Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?

    8 He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night.

    9 So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28 Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.

    29 He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.

    30 He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse, the flame shal drye vp his branches, with the blast of ye mouth of God shall he be taken away.

  • 32 Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape of the dead.

  • Job 21:25-26
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    25 Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

    26 They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them.

  • 10 The vngodly shall see it, and it wyll greeue hym, he wyll gnashe with his teethe and consume away: the desire of the vngodly shall perishe.

  • 13 Therfore shall sorowes come vpon him as vpon a woman that trauayleth: an vndiscrete sonne is he, els woulde he not stande styll at the tyme of birth of children.

  • Job 18:13-14
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    13 It shall eate the strength of his owne skinne, euen the first borne of death shall eate his strength.

    14 His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him to the king of feare.

  • Job 20:20-21
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    20 Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape.

    21 There shall none of his meate be left, therefore shall no man loke for his goodes.

  • 8 Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde:

  • 20 The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe, and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen.

  • 8 Let them creepe away lyke a snayle that foorthwith consumeth to naught: or lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman, let them not see the sunne.

  • 4 They shall dye an horrible death, no man shall weepe for them, nor bury them, but they shall lye as dunge vpon the earth: they shall perishe through the sworde & hunger, and their bodyes shalbe meate for the fowles of the ayre, and beastes of the earth.

  • 10 Looke at them yet a litle whyle, and the vngodly shalbe cleane gone: thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be there

  • 20 There shall neither be chylde nor olde man that haue not their full dayes: but when the chylde commeth to an hundred yeres olde it shal dye, and if he that is an hundred yeres of age do wrong, he shalbe cursed.

  • 12 So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe.

  • 15 There the fire shall deuoure thee, the sword shall cut thee of, shall deuoure as the locust, though thou be multiplied as the locust, though thou be as many as the grashopper.

  • 15 She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste.

  • 28 And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten.

  • 17 So that he shall no more see the ryuers and brookes of hony and butter.

  • 32 He shal perishe afore his time be worne out, and his braunche shall not be greene.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    69%

    26 All darknesse shalbe hid in their secrete places, an vnkindled fire shal consume him: and loke what remaineth in his house, it shalbe destroyed.

    27 The heauen shal declare his wickednesse, and the earth shall take part against him.

  • 22 But while his fleshe is vpon him, it must haue sorowe: and his soule shall mourne within him.

  • 14 I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.

  • 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest:

  • 16 Ephraim is hewen downe, their roote is dried vp, so that they shall bryng no more fruite: yea and though they bryng foorth any, yet wyll I slay euen the best beloued of their body.

  • 30 But the first borne of the poore shalbe fed, and the simple shall dwell in safetie: Thy roote also wyll I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay the remnaunt.