Verse 23

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Eccl 12:5-7 : 5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets; 6 Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole; 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.
  • Job 3:19 : 19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
  • Job 9:22 : 22 It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
  • Job 14:5 : 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
  • Job 21:33 : 33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.