THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 24:19 in context
Job 24:16–22
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In the dark they dig through houses.
They shut themselves up in the daytime.
They don’t know the light.
17
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness,
for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18
“They are foam on the surface of the waters.
Their portion is cursed on the earth.
They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
20
The womb will forget him.
The worm will feed sweetly on him.
He will be no more remembered.
Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
21
He devours the barren who don’t bear.
He shows no kindness to the widow.
22
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power.
He rises up who has no assurance of life.
Source notes
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- Sheol is the place of the dead.
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