Job 24:20
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20 The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like a tree.(A)
Proverbs 10:7
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7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)
Daniel 4:14
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14 He cried aloud and said:
‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches;
strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit.
Let the animals flee from beneath it
and the birds from its branches.(A)
Job 18:16-17
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16 Their roots dry up beneath,
and their branches wither above.(A)
17 Their memory perishes from the earth,
and they have no name in the street.(B)
Matthew 3:10
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10 Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.(A)
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Isaiah 26:14
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14 The dead do not live;
shades do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them
and wiped out all memory of them.(A)
Ecclesiastes 8:10
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God’s Ways Are Inscrutable
10 Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice;[a] they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast[b] in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.
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Job 19:26
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26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,(A)
Job 17:14
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14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(A)
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 shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grows old in the earth
and its stump dies in the ground,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth branches like a young plant.(A)
10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(B)
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