17 All memory(A) of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name anywhere.[a]

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  1. Job 18:17 Or name in the streets

17 The memory of him perishes from the earth;(A)
    he has no name(B) in the land.(C)

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The remembrance of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)

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The name of the righteous(A) is used in blessings,[a]
    but the name of the wicked(B) will rot.(C)

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  1. Proverbs 10:7 See Gen. 48:20.

19 for I was like a docile[a] lamb led to slaughter.(A)
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;[b]
let’s cut him off from the land of the living(B)
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

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  1. Jeremiah 11:19 Or pet
  2. Jeremiah 11:19 Lit bread

19 I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;(A) I did not realize that they had plotted(B) against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;
    let us cut him off from the land of the living,(C)
    that his name be remembered(D) no more.”

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