Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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 O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat. 20 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. 21 For they maintain the barren, and make them that they cannot bear, and unto widows they do no good.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:7
The memorial of the just shall have a good report; but the name of the ungodly shall stink.
Daniel 4:14
and cried mightily, saying, 'Hew down the tree, break off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit abroad: that all the beasts may get them away from under him, and the fowls from his branches.
Job 18:16-17
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down.
Job 14:7-10
"If a tree be cut down, there is some hope yet, that it will sprout and shoot forth the branches again;
Job 17:14
I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.
Job 19:26
that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
For I have oft seen the ungodly brought to their graves, and fallen down from the high and glorious place; insomuch that they were forgotten in the city where they were had in so high and great reputation. This is also a vain thing.
Isaiah 26:14
The malicious tyrants when they die, are neither in life nor in the resurrection, for thou visitest them and rootest them out, and destroyest all the memorial of them.
Matthew 3:10
Even now is the axe put unto the root of the trees: so that every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.