Parallel Verses
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 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.
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 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 The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned. 20 The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down. 21 He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot.
Daniel 4:14
He called out loudly as follows: 'Chop down the tree and lop off its branches! Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit! Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches!
Job 18:16-17
Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.
Job 14:7-10
"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
Job 17:14
If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,'
Job 19:26
And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
Ecclesiastes 8:10
Not only that, but I have seen the wicked approaching and entering the temple, and as they left the holy temple, they boasted in the city that they had done so. This also is an enigma.
Isaiah 26:14
The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.
Matthew 3:10
Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.