King James Version (KJV)

Job 24:19

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

Verse in context — Job 24

For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

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

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.

He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

A poetic exploration of suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty.