Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 -- 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. 21 Treating evil the barren who beareth not, And to the widow he doth no good,
Cross References
Proverbs 10:7
The remembrance of the righteous is for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.
Daniel 4:14
He is calling mightily, and thus hath said, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its budding, move away let the beast from under it, and the birds from off its branches;
Job 18:16-17
From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
Job 14:7-10
For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.
Job 17:14
To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.
Job 19:26
And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity.
Isaiah 26:14
Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.
Matthew 3:10
and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.