Job 24:20
Parallel Translations


NASB: "A mother will forget him; The worm feeds sweetly till he is no longer remembered. And wickedness will be broken like a tree. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: The womb forgets them. Worms feast on them. No one remembers them anymore, and wickedness is snapped like a twig. (GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: 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.
ASV: 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.
BBE: The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
DBY: The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --
JPS: The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree.
WBS: 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.
WEB: 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.
YLT: 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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