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Job 24:19 — King James Version← Study notes

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.


Job 24:19Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 24:198 words
HebrewMeaning
צִיָּ֤הṣiyāh
droughtnounH6723
drought · dry (land · place) · solitary place ···
גַםgam
alsoadvH1571
alike · also · as · both ...and ···
חֹ֗םḥōm
heatnounH2527
to be hot
יִגְזְל֥וּyigəzəlw
they snatch awayverbH1497
consume · exercise · pluck · rob ···
מֵֽימֵיmēymēy
the waters ofnounH4325
piss · water(-ing · (-course · -flood ···
שֶׁ֗לֶגšeleg
snownounH7950
שְׁא֣וֹלšəʾwōl
SheolnounH7585
hell · pit
חָטָֽאוּḥāṭāʾw
those who they have sinnedverbH2398
cleanse · commit · by fault · harm he hath done ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 24:19

Let him pass to excessive heat from the snow waters. Iniquity is on this account likened to cold, because the mind that sins it binds up with insensibility. Hence it is written; As a fountain has made her waters cold, so she has made her wickedness cold. Contrariwise charity is ‘heat,’ in this respect that it fires the soul it fills. Of which ‘heat’ is written, Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. And there are some who while they shun the cold or…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 16 §80
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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