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19 Snow soon disappears
    when the weather is very hot or very dry.
In the same way, death quickly takes away people who do bad things.
20 Their mothers soon forget them.
    Worms eat their bodies.
No one remembers those wicked people.
    They are like dead trees that people have cut down.
21 Those wicked people are cruel to women who have no children.
    They are not kind to widows.

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19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,(A)
    so the grave(B) snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them,
    the worm(C) feasts on them;(D)
the wicked are no longer remembered(E)
    but are broken like a tree.(F)
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
    and to the widow they show no kindness.(G)

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