Job 24:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.
  • Job 21:13 : 13 They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
  • Job 21:23 : 23 Death Levels Everything“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,
  • Job 21:32-34 : 32 And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound, 33 The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng. 34 So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”
  • Job 6:15-17 : 15 My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away. 16 They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them. 17 When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
  • Ps 58:8-9 : 8 Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun! 9 Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.
  • Eccl 9:4-6 : 4 Better to Be Poor but Alive than Rich but Dead But whoever is among the living has hope; a live dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward– and even the memory of them disappears. 6 What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
  • Luke 16:22 : 22 “Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

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