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Job 24:20 — The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the worm		Job 17:14; Job 19:26
he shall be		Pro 10:7; Ecc 8:10; Isa 26:14
wickedness		Job 14:7-10; Job 18:16,17; Dan 4:14; Mat 3:10

Correlating Passages

the worm

	Job 17:14	I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
	Job 19:26	And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:

he shall be

	Pro 10:7	The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
	Ecc 8:10	And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.
	Isa 26:14	[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

wickedness

	Job 14:7	For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
	Job 14:8	Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
	Job 14:9	[Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
	Job 14:10	But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?
	Job 18:16	His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
	Job 18:17	His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
	Dan 4:14	He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
	Mat 3:10	And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 24:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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