Job 24:19 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁹ and their plants exposed dry on the ground: for they plundered the sheaf of orphans.

¹⁵ my nearest friends did not regard me: like a failing brook, or like a wave of the sea, they passed me by. ¹⁶ They who had assiduously paid me court, now made me a slight visit, like snow or hoar frost, ¹⁷ which melting at the approach of heat, the place where it was is not known.

¹³ and having spent their life in festivity, they are composed to rest in the peaceful grave.

²³ One is to die in his full strength, all his life being successful and prosperous;

³² Even when he should be carried to the burying place, he had caused a watch to be kept over his tomb. ³³ The flints of the torrent have been sweetened for him, and every man shall go after him, as innumerable have gone before him. ³⁴ How then do ye comfort me with vanity? There is nothing from you to give me consolation.

¹⁴ They are pent up like sheep in the mansion of the dead: death shall feed them and the early watches will rule over them: and that help of theirs from their glory, shall in the mansion of the dead become obsolete.

⁸ Like melting wax they shall be dissolved. A fire fell and they saw not the sun. ⁹ Before your bramble bush can make its prickles felt; it will devour you as it were alive, as with wrath.

² As smoke vanisheth, let them disappear: as wax melteth before fire, so let sinners perish at the presence of God.

³² A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness; but in his sanctity the righteous is secure.

⁴ Because whoever is in society with all the living hath hope; because the dog which is alive is better than the lion which is dead; ⁵ because they who are alive must know that they shall die; but the dead are not sensible of any thing and there is no more a portion for them; because the remembrance of these is forgotten, ⁶ and their love and their hatred and their envy are already perished and they have no more forever a portion in any thing done under the sun;

²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried.