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18 You may say, “Floods of water carry away wicked people.[a]
    God curses the land that belongs to them.
    Nobody goes to work in their vineyards.
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.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:18 In verses 18–24, Job seems to be repeating things that his friends have been saying. They are not things that he himself agrees with.