en_tn/job/24/20.md

# Connecting Statement:

Job continues speaking.

# The womb

This refers to the mother. Alternate translation: "The mother" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])

# the worm will feed sweetly on him

This means that he will die and worms will eat his body. Alternate translation: "the worm will enjoy eating his dead body" or "he will die and then his body will be eaten by worms" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# he will be remembered no more

This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "no one will remember him anymore" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

# wickedness will be broken like a tree

God's destruction of the wicked man is describes as if he were cutting down a tree. This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "God will destroy the wicked as if he were a tree" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])