Job 24:20

World English Bible (2000)

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  • Dan 4:14 : 14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
  • Job 18:16-17 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
  • Job 14:7-9 : 7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. 8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground, 9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Job 18:16-19
    4 verses
    77%

    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

    18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

    19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

  • Job 24:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

  • Isa 14:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

    20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

  • Jer 20:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

    17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

  • Job 20:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

    12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

  • 15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

  • 21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

  • 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Job 20:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

    8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

    9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

  • Job 15:28-30
    3 verses
    72%

    28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • 32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Job 21:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

    26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • 10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.

  • Job 18:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

    14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

  • Job 20:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

    21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • 8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

  • 20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

  • 8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

  • 4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

  • 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

  • 20 "There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

  • 12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

  • 15 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

  • 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • 17 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

  • 32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

  • Job 20:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

  • 22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

  • 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

  • 17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

  • 16 Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

  • 30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.