Job 24:19 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁹ O yt they (for the wickednesse which they haue done) were drawen to the hell, sooner the snowe melteth at the heate.

¹⁵ Myne owne brethren passe ouer by me as the waterbroke, that hastely runneth thorow ye valleys. ¹⁶ But they that feare the horefrost, the snowe shal fall vpon them. ¹⁷ When their tyme cometh, they shalbe destroyed and perishe: and when they be set on fyre, they shalbe remoued out of their place,

¹³ They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell.

²³ One dyeth now when he is mightie & at his best, rich and in prosperite:

³² Yet shal he be brought to his graue, and watch amonge the heape of the deed. ³³ The shal he be fayne to be buried amoge the stones by the broke syde. All men must folowe him, & there are innumerable gone before him. ³⁴ O how vayne is the comforte yt ye geue me? Are not youre answeres cleane contrary to right and treuth?

¹⁴ Sela. They lye in the hell like shepe, death shal gnawe vpon them, & the rightuous shal haue dominacion of them in the mornynge by tymes: their stregth shal consume, & hell shalbe their dwellinge.

⁸ Let the cosume awaye like a snale, & like the vntymely frute of a woman, and let them not se the Sonne. ⁹ Or euer youre thornes be sharpe, the wrath shal take them awaye quycke, like a stormy wynde.

² Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou dryue them awaye: and like as waxe melteth at the fyre, so shall the vngodly perish at the presence off God.

³² The vngodly is afrayed of euery parell, but the rightuous hath a good hope eue in death.

⁴ And why? As longe as a man lyueth, he is careles: for a quyck dogg (saye they) is better the a deed lion: ⁵ for they that be lyuynge, knowe yt they shall dye: but they yt be deed, knowe nothinge, nether deserue they eny more. For their memoriall is forgotte, ⁶ so yt they be nether loued, hated ner envyed: nether haue they eny more parte in ye worlde, in all yt is done vnder the Sonne.

²⁰ But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared?

²² But it fortuned, that the poore man dyed, and was caried of the angels in to Abrahams bosome. The riche man dyed also, and was buried.