Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.

New American Standard Bible

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So does Sheol those who have sinned.

King James Version

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

Holman Bible

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

International Standard Version

As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that's what Sheol does with sinners.

A Conservative Version

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.

American Standard Version

Drought and heat consume the snow waters:'so doth'sheol those that have sinned.

Amplified


“Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

King James 2000

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

Modern King James verseion

Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; so does the grave those who have sinned.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

NET Bible

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

Webster

Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol those who have sinned.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ציּה 
Tsiyah 
Usage: 16

and heat
חם 
Chom 
Usage: 11

גּזל 
Gazal 
Usage: 30

the snow
שׁלג 
Sheleg 
Usage: 20

so doth the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

18 He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion will be cursed in the earth: he will not see the way of the vineyards. 19 Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning. 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.


Cross References

Job 21:13

Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades.

Job 6:15-17

My brethren dealt faithlessly as a torrent; as a channel of torrents they shall pass away;

Job 21:23

This shall die in the strength of his fulness, altogether tranquil and at rest

Job 21:32-34

And he shall be led away to the graves, and shall watch over the tomb.

Psalm 49:14

As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him.

Psalm 58:8-9

As a snail shall melt away he shall go: fire fell; they saw not the sun.

Psalm 68:2

As smoke being dispersed thou wilt disperse: as wax melting from the face of fire, the unjust shall perish from the face of God.

Proverbs 14:32

The unjust one shall be driven away in his evil: and the just one trusted in his death.

Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.

Luke 12:20

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

Luke 16:22

And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried;

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