Job 24:20 Cross References - LEB

²⁰ The womb forgets him. The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a* tree.

⁷ "Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then* it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease; ⁸ though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust, ⁹ at* the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant. ¹⁰ "But* a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus* a human being passes away, and where is he?*

¹⁴ if I call to the pit, 'You are my father,' to the maggot, 'You are my mother or* my sister,'

¹⁶ His roots dry up _⌊below_⌋,* and its branches* wither away above.* ¹⁷ His remembrance perishes from the earth, and there is not a name for him on the street.

²⁶ And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but* from* my flesh I will see God,

⁷ The memory of righteousness is like a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

¹⁰ Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being honorably buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also is vanity!

¹⁴ The dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them.

¹⁴ He cried _⌊aloud_⌋* and so he said:
"Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; shake off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

¹⁰ Already now the ax is positioned at the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.