Job 24:20
New International Version
The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.

New Living Translation
Their own mothers will forget them. Maggots will find them sweet to eat. No one will remember them. Wicked people are broken like a tree in the storm.

English Standard Version
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

Berean Standard Bible
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
The womb should forget him, The worm should feed sweetly on him; He should be remembered no more, And wickedness should be broken like a tree.

New American Standard Bible
“A mother will forget him; The maggot feeds sweetly until he is no longer remembered. And injustice will be broken like a tree.

NASB 1995
“A mother will forget him; The worm feeds sweetly till he is no longer remembered. And wickedness will be broken like a tree.

NASB 1977
“A mother will forget him; The worm feeds sweetly till he is remembered no more. And wickedness will be broken like a tree.

Legacy Standard Bible
A mother will forget him; The worm feasts sweetly till he is no longer remembered. And unrighteousness will be broken like a tree.

Amplified Bible
“A mother will forget him; The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered. And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

Christian Standard Bible
The womb forgets them; worms feed on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The womb forgets them; worms feed on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

American Standard Version
The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they were forgotten from the womb; the worm sucked them and the dead will not be remembered again, and the evil one will be broken like wood

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.

Contemporary English Version
Forgotten here on earth, and with their power broken, they taste sweet to worms.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.

English Revised Version
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered: and unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The womb forgets them. Worms feast on them. No one remembers them anymore, and wickedness is snapped like a twig.

Good News Translation
Not even their mothers remember them now; they are eaten by worms and destroyed like fallen trees.

International Standard Version
The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won't be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness is broken as a tree.

Literal Standard Version
The womb forgets him, | The worm sweetens [on] him, | He is remembered no more, | And wickedness is broken as a tree.

Majority Standard Bible
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

New American Bible
May the womb forget him, may the worm find him sweet, may he no longer be remembered; And may wickedness be broken like a tree.

NET Bible
The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

New Revised Standard Version
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.

New Heart English Bible
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

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Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
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. 21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.…

Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Job 18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Job 19:10
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 21:26
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Psalm 34:16
But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!


Treasury of Scripture

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.

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

Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Ecclesiastes 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.

Isaiah 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 14:7-10
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 18:16,17
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off…

Daniel 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:

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(20) The womb shall forget him.--Some understand this verse as expressing what ought rather to be the doom of the wicked. "His own mother should forget him; the worm should feed sweetly on him; he should be no more remembered; and then unrighteousness would be broken as a tree."

Verse 20. - The womb shall forget him: Some regard this as equivalent to "Earth shall forget him;" but most suppose "the womb" to mean "his own mother." The worm shall feed sweetly on him (comp. Job 17:14). He shall be no more remembered. Oblivion shall fall upon him and his doings. And wickedness shall be broken as a tree. As a strong wind suddenly snaps off a tree at the root, so wickedness, in the person of the wicked man - the abstract for the concrete - shall be overtaken by death, and perish in a moment (comp. ver. 24).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The womb
רֶ֨חֶם ׀ (re·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7358: The womb

forgets them;
יִשְׁכָּ֘חֵ֤הוּ (yiš·kā·ḥê·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

the worm
רִמָּ֗ה (rim·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7415: A maggot

feeds on them;
מְתָ֘ק֤וֹ (mə·ṯā·qōw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4988: A dainty, food

they are remembered
יִזָּכֵ֑ר (yiz·zā·ḵêr)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

no
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

more.
ע֥וֹד (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

So injustice
עַוְלָֽה׃ (‘aw·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness

is like a broken
וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֖ר (wat·tiš·šā·ḇêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

tree.
כָּעֵ֣ץ (kā·‘êṣ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood


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