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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 brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
 16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
 17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of 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 shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
 33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
 34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? (Job 21:23,32‑34)
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Psa. 49:14• 14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. (Psa. 49:14)
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Psa. 58:8‑9• 8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
 9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. (Psa. 58:8‑9)
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Psa. 68:2• 2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. (Psa. 68:2)
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Prov. 14:32• 32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope 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 any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
 6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. (Eccl. 9:4‑6)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? (Luke 12:20)
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Luke 16:22• 22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: 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.