King James Version
Job 24:19 in the King James Version says “Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. consume: Heb. violently take” — study this verse from Job chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. consume: Heb. violently take”
Job 24:19 · KJV
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
He is swift as the waters ; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. consume: Heb. violently take
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.
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“so doth the grave”
H7585hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
“those which have sinned”
H2398properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
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