Job 24:20-22

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁰The squares of the town^[a] forget them;
their name^[b] is no longer remembered;
so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

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

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Footnotes

Job 24:20 Cn: Heb obscure
Job 24:20 Cn: Heb a worm
Job 24:22 Heb he

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