Job 21:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
  • Job 3:18-19 : 18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. 19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 17:16
    78%

    16Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • Job 20:11
    76%

    11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Job 21:25
    76%

    25And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

  • Job 34:15
    75%

    15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 21:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

    33The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

  • Eccl 3:20
    75%

    20All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Job 14:12
    74%

    12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Isa 14:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

    11Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

  • Ps 49:14
    74%

    14Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

  • Job 21:13
    73%

    13Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

  • Job 25:6
    72%

    6How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Job 4:19-21
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    72%

    19How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

    21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Jer 16:4
    72%

    4Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

  • Job 40:13
    72%

    13His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

  • Job 27:19
    72%

    19He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Isa 66:24
    72%

    24And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

  • Job 36:14
    72%

    14They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

  • Job 24:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

    20The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

  • Isa 14:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,

    19But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • Job 7:5
    71%

    5My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

  • Isa 26:14
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    14The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

  • Job 20:7
    71%

    7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

  • Jer 9:22
    71%

    22The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.

  • Isa 26:19
    71%

    19Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

  • Mic 7:17
    70%

    17They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.

  • Job 21:23
    70%

    23One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

  • Ps 41:8
    70%

    8They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

  • Ps 73:19
    70%

    19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

    22Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

  • Ps 141:7
    70%

    7Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Ps 22:29
    70%

    29All 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.

  • Prov 5:11
    70%

    11And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • 1 Kgs 13:30
    70%

    30And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!

  • Ps 83:10
    70%

    10Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

  • Ps 146:4
    70%

    4Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Prov 1:12
    70%

    12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • Job 34:20
    70%

    20Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • Job 33:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

    22And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • Jer 8:2
    69%

    2And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

  • Jer 16:6
    69%

    6Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

  • Job 19:26
    69%

    26And ... without my flesh I will see God;