Job 24:19 Cross References - ISV

¹⁹ As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that’s what Sheol does with sinners.

¹⁵ But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow. ¹⁶ Filled with waters made cold by ice, they are where the snow goes to hide. ¹⁷ But then the snow melts, and they disappear; when warmed, they evaporate from their stream beds.

¹³ They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.

²³ Such persons will die in their full vigor, completely prosperous and secure.

³² when he is carried away to the cemetery and guardians are placed to watch his tomb? ³³ The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him. ³⁴ How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery.”

¹⁴ Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

⁸ May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman’s stillborn baby, who never saw the sun. ⁹ Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns— whether green or ablaze— wrath will sweep them away like a storm.

² As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God.

³² The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

⁴ “While someone is among the living, hope remains,” because “it is better to be a living dog than to be a dead lion.” ⁵ At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten. ⁶ Furthermore, their love, their hate, and their envy have been long lost. Never again will they have a part in what happens on earth.

²⁰ But God told him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you’ve accumulated?’

²² “One day, the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.