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Job 24

Job 24:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Drought
tsiyah (Hebrew #6723)
aridity; concretely, a desert
KJV usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
Pronounce: tsee-yaw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to parch
and heat
chom (Hebrew #2527)
heat
KJV usage: heat, to be hot (warm).
Pronounce: khome
Origin: from 2552
γconsume
gazal (Hebrew #1497)
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
KJV usage: catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.
Pronounce: gaw-zal'
Origin: a primitive root
the snow
sheleg (Hebrew #7950)
snow (probably from its whiteness)
KJV usage: snow(-y).
Pronounce: sheh'-leg
Origin: from 7949
waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
: so doth the grave
sh'owl (Hebrew #7585)
from 7592; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.
Pronounce: sheh-ole'
Origin: or shol {sheh-ole'}
those which have sinned
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
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violently take.

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Drought.
Job 6:15‑17• 15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,
 16Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:
 17At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place: (Job 6:15‑17)
consume.
Heb. violently take.
so doth.
Job 21:23,32‑34• 23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
 32Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
 33The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
 34How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious. (Job 21:23,32‑34)
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Psa. 49:14• 14Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them. (Psa. 49:14)
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Psa. 58:8‑9• 8Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.
 9Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning,--they shall be whirled away. (Psa. 58:8‑9)
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Psa. 68:2• 2As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God. (Psa. 68:2)
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Prov. 14:32• 32The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death. (Prov. 14:32)
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Eccl. 9:4‑6• 4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
 5For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
 6Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun. (Eccl. 9:4‑6)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:20)
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Luke 16:22• 22And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. (Luke 16:22)
• {v.19-20} As drought and heat dry up snow-waters, so Sheol causes the wicked to pass suddenly from view. They pass away, forgotten even by their mother, to be the food of worms! Such is the end of the wicked oppressor. The general thought of this part of Job’s reply is that in this life, and often up to the very end, men escape the penalties they deserve. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.