Verse 48

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:15 : 15 But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)
  • Heb 11:5 : 5 By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
  • Ps 22:29 : 29 All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.
  • Ps 49:7-9 : 7 Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself; 8 (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.) 9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
  • Eccl 3:19-20 : 19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose. 20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.
  • 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.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • John 8:51 : 51 Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;