Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol those who have sinned.
New American Standard Bible
So does
King James Version
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
Holman Bible
so Sheol
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
18 Light he is on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards. 19 Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol those who have sinned. 20 Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.
Cross References
Job 21:13
They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.
Job 6:15-17
My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
Job 21:23
This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 21:32-34
And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.
Psalm 49:14
As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.
Psalm 58:8-9
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
Psalm 68:2
As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.
Proverbs 14:32
In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.
Ecclesiastes 9:4-6
But to him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it is better than to the dead lion.
Luke 12:20
And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
Luke 16:22
And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;