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19 As ·heat and dryness [the desert and heat] ·quickly melt the snow [L steal away the snow waters],
    so ·the grave [L Sheol] quickly takes away the sinners.
20 ·Their mothers [L The womb] forget them,
    and worms ·will eat their bodies [L think they are sweet].
They will not be remembered,
    so wickedness is broken in pieces like a ·stick [L tree; C perhaps by wind or lightening; Ps. 29:5–6; Ezek. 17:24].
21 These evil people ·abuse women who cannot have children [or associate with barren women]
    ·and show no kindness to widows [or which is not favorable to their widow].

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