Holy Scripture
Job 24:20
A church father on this verse
“Let mercy forget him. The worm is his sweetness. Almighty God's mercy is said to 'forget him,' who has forgotten Almighty God's justice, in that whoever does not fear Him now as just, can never find him merciful afterward. Which same sentence is not only held out against him, who abandons the preachings of true faith,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Then is his sin brought to remembrance, And he vanishes like a vapor of dew: But let what he has done be recompensed to him, And let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
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18He is swift on the face of the water: Let his portion be cursed on the earth; And let their plants be laid bare.
19Let them be withered upon the earth; For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
— Job 24:20 —
21For he has not treated the barren woman well, And has had no pity on a feeble woman.
22And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: Therefore when he has arisen, a man will not feel secure of his own life.