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Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
Job 24:19 · World English Bible
Job 24:19 in other translations
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
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In context
16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18 “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
21 He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
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