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19 Melted snow disappears when the air is hot and dry.
    And sinners disappear when they go down into their graves.
20 Even their mothers forget them.
    The worms in their graves eat them up.
No one remembers sinful people anymore.
    They are cut down like trees.
21 They mistreat women who aren’t able to have children.
    They aren’t 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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