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Job 24:19

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

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צִיָּ֤הtsiyahbarrenצִיָּהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “barren”, the ordinary formH6723aridity; concretely, a desertbarren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.גַםgamalsoגַּםadverb — “also”H1571properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...andagain, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.חֹ֗םchomheatחֹםnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “heat”, the ordinary formH2527heatheat, to be hot (warm).יִגְזְל֥וּyigzelvrobגָּזַלverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “rob”, an unfinished actionH1497to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or robcatch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.מֵֽימֵיmeymewaterמַיִםnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct — “water”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).שֶׁ֗לֶגshelegsnowשֶׁלֶגnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “snow”, the ordinary formH7950snow (probably from its whiteness)snow(-y).שְׁא֣וֹלsheolgraveשְׁאוֹלnoun, proper name — “grave”H7585Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmatesgrave, hell, pit.חָטָֽאוּchatavby faultחָטָאverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “by fault”, a completed actionH2398properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemnbear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world those that have sinned.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So doth Sheol those that have sinned.

Young’s Literal Translation

Drought — also heat — consume snow-waters, Sheol [those who] have sinned.

World English Bible

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

Darby Translation

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

Douay-Rheims

Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world those that have sinned.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

ἀναφανείη δὲ τὰ φυτὰ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ γῆς ξηρά· ἀγκαλίδα γὰρ ὀρφανῶν ἥρπασαν.