Job 24:19 Cross References - LEB

¹⁹ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away those* who have sinned.

¹⁵ My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis* they flow away, ¹⁶ which are growing dark because of ice upon them, it will pile up snow. ¹⁷ In time they dry up, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

²³ This one dies _⌊in full prosperity_⌋,* _⌊completely_⌋* at ease and secure.

³² When* he is brought to the grave, then* someone stands guard over the tomb. ³³ The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and _⌊before_⌋* him _⌊they are innumerable_⌋.* ³⁴ So* how will you comfort me with emptiness, when* fraud is left in your answers?"

¹⁴ Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms will be for Sheol to consume, far from his lofty abode.

⁸ Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun. ⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush, whether green or _⌊dry_⌋,* he will sweep it away.*

² As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off. As wax melts before fire, the wicked will perish before God.

³² By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.

⁴ Whoever is joined* to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion! ⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. ⁶ What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun.

²⁰ But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life* is demanded from you, and the things which you have prepared—whose will they be?'

²² Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to _⌊Abraham's side_⌋.* And the rich man also died and was buried.