Job 24:20
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20 The womb should forget him,
The worm should feed sweetly on him;
(A)He should be remembered no more,
And wickedness should be broken like a tree.
Daniel 4:14
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14 He cried [a]aloud and said thus:
(A)‘Chop down the tree and cut off its branches,
Strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit.
(B)Let the beasts get out from under it,
And the birds from its branches.
Footnotes
- Daniel 4:14 Lit. with strength
Proverbs 10:7
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7 (A)The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.
Job 18:16-17
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16 (A)His roots are dried out below,
And his branch withers above.
17 (B)The memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name [a]among the renowned.
Footnotes
- Job 18:17 Lit. before the outside, i.e., the distinguished or famous
Matthew 3:10
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10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. (A)Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Isaiah 26:14
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14 They are dead, they will not live;
They are deceased, they will not rise.
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And made all their memory to (A)perish.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
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Death Comes to All
10 Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were (A)forgotten[a] in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Heb. mss., LXX, Vg. praised
Job 19:26
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Footnotes
- Job 19:26 Lit. struck off
Job 17:14
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14 If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
Job 14:7-10
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7 “For there is hope for a tree,
If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And that its tender shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root may grow old in the earth,
And its stump may die in the ground,
9 Yet at the scent of water it will bud
And bring forth branches like a plant.
10 But man dies and [a]is laid away;
Indeed he [b]breathes his last
And where is (A)he?
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