20 The womb forgets them;
    the worm finds them sweet;
they are (A)no longer remembered,
    so wickedness is broken like (B)a tree.’

21 “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
    and do no good to the widow.
22 Yet God[a] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
    they rise up when they despair of life.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:22 Hebrew he

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