Job 24:20
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The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
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The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.