Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:20

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20. The womb —The very mother that bare him, and who is the last to "forget" the child that sucked her ( :- ), shall dismiss him from her memory ( Job 18:17 ; Proverbs 10:7 ). The worm shall suck, that is, "feed sweetly" on him as a delicate morsel ( Proverbs 10:7- : ). wickedness —that is, the wicked; abstract for concrete (as Proverbs 10:7- : ). as a tree —utterly ( Proverbs 10:7- : ); UMBREIT better, "as a staff." A broken staff is the emblem of irreparable ruin ( Isaiah 14:5 ; Hosea 4:12 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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절 (explains)

bible-text/job-24-20

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