Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned. New Living Translation The grave consumes sinners just as drought and heat consume snow. English Standard Version Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned. Berean Standard Bible As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. King James Bible Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. New King James Version As drought and heat consume the snow waters, So the grave consumes those who have sinned. New American Standard Bible “Dryness and heat snatch away the snow waters, As Sheol snatches those who have sinned. NASB 1995 “Drought and heat consume the snow waters, So does Sheol those who have sinned. NASB 1977 “Drought and heat consume the snow waters, So does Sheol those who have sinned. Legacy Standard Bible Drought and heat seize the snow waters, So does Sheol those who have sinned. Amplified Bible “Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned. Christian Standard Bible As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. Holman Christian Standard Bible As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. American Standard Version Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So doth Sheol those that have sinned. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Drought and heat will seize the waters of the snow, into Sheol they have sinned Brenton Septuagint Translation Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless. Contemporary English Version Just as the heat of summer swallows the snow, the world of the dead swallows those who sin. Douay-Rheims Bible Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell. English Revised Version Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth Sheol those which have sinned. GOD'S WORD® Translation [Just as] drought and heat steal water from snow, so the grave steals people who sin. Good News Translation As snow vanishes in heat and drought, so sinners vanish from the land of the living. International Standard Version As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that's what Sheol does with sinners. JPS Tanakh 1917 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So doth the nether-world those that have sinned. Literal Standard Version Drought—also heat—consume snow-waters, | Sheol—[those who] have sinned. Majority Standard Bible As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. New American Bible Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, Sheol, those who have sinned. NET Bible The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned. New Revised Standard Version Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned. New Heart English Bible Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned. Webster's Bible Translation Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned. World English Bible Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned. Young's Literal Translation Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol those who have sinned. Additional Translations ... Context Job: Judgment for the Wicked…18They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards. 19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. 20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.… Cross References Job 3:13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest Job 6:16 darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, Job 6:17 but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat. Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace. Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode. Treasury of Scripture Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned. Drought Job 6:15-17 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; … consume. Job 21:23,32-34 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet… Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. Psalm 58:8,9 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun… Jump to Previous Consume Drought Drouth Dry Grave Heat Melted Nether-World Sheol Sinned Sinners Snatch Snatches Snow Underworld WatersJump to Next Consume Drought Drouth Dry Grave Heat Melted Nether-World Sheol Sinned Sinners Snatch Snatches Snow Underworld WatersJob 24 1. Wickedness often goes unpunished17. There is a secret judgment for the wicked (19) So doth the grave those which have sinned.--Job had already spoken of the sudden death of the wicked as a blessing (Job 9:23; Job 21:13), as compared with the lingering torture he himself was called upon to undergo.Verse 19. - Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned. This rendering is further confirmed by the next verse. Accepting it, we must suppose Job to pass at this point to the consideration of the ultimate end of the wicked, though in ver. 21 he returns to the consideration of their ill doings. The heat and drought of summer, he says, consume and dry up all the water which comes from the melting of the winter's snows. So does Shoel, or the grave, absorb, and as it were consume, the wicked. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew As droughtצִיָּ֤ה (ṣî·yāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6723: Aridity, a desert and גַם־ (ḡam-) Conjunction Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and heat חֹ֗ם (ḥōm) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2527: Heat consume יִגְזְל֥וּ (yiḡ·zə·lū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob the melting snow, שֶׁ֗לֶג (še·leḡ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7950: Snow so Sheol שְׁא֣וֹל (šə·’ō·wl) Noun - common singular construct Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death) steals those who have sinned. חָטָֽאוּ׃ (ḥā·ṭā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn Links Job 24:19 NIVJob 24:19 NLT Job 24:19 ESV Job 24:19 NASB Job 24:19 KJV Job 24:19 BibleApps.com Job 24:19 Biblia Paralela Job 24:19 Chinese Bible Job 24:19 French Bible Job 24:19 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters (Jb) |
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