Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.
New American Standard Bible
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And wickedness will be broken
King James Version
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Holman Bible
worms feed on them;
they are remembered
So injustice is broken like a tree.
International Standard Version
The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won't be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood.
A Conservative Version
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
American Standard Version
The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Amplified
“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].
Bible in Basic English
The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
Darby Translation
The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --
Julia Smith Translation
The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
King James 2000
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.
NET Bible
The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.
Webster
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
19 Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; so does the grave those who have sinned. 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree. 21 He ill-treats the women who bear no children; and does no good to the widow.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Daniel 4:14
He cried aloud and said this, 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 birds from its branches.
Job 18:16-17
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and his branch shall wither above.
Job 14:7-10
For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease.
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister!
Job 19:26
and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came and went from the holy place. And they were forgotten in the city, these things that they had done. This is also vanity.
Isaiah 26:14
Dead ones do not live; departed spirits do not rise. Therefore You have visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.
Matthew 3:10
And now also, the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.