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Job 24:20 King James The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The womb--The very mother that bare him, and who is the last to "forget" the child that sucked her (Isa 49:15), shall dismiss him from her memory (Job 18:17; Pro 10:7). The worm shall suck, that is, "feed sweetly" on him as a delicate morsel (Job 21:33).

wickedness--that is, the wicked; abstract for concrete (as Job 5:16).

as a tree--utterly (Job 19:10); UMBREIT better, "as a staff." A broken staff is the emblem of irreparable ruin (Isa 14:5; Hos 4:12).
 
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12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.