Holy Scripture
Job 18:16
A church father on this verse
“These words mean that the punishment of the impious will be similar to the massacre of the Sodomites. "Their roots dry beneath, and their branches wither above" so that nothing useful to the impious may remain anywhere, beneath or above the ground.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16His roots shall be dried up from beneath, And his crop shall fall away from above.
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14And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, And let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: His excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
— Job 18:16 —
17Let his memorial perish out of the earth, And his name shall be publicly cast out.
18Let one drive him from light into darkness.