Job 21:26

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They lie down together in the dust, and worms cover them.

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  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 Everything happens alike to everyone: the same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the pure and the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As with the good person, so with the sinner; as with those who swear oaths, so with those who avoid them.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pride has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Beneath you is a bed of maggots, and worms cover you.
  • Job 20:11 : 11 The youthful vigor that filled his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
  • Job 3:18-19 : 18 Together the prisoners are at ease; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his masters.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister,
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb forgets them; worms feast upon them; they are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 This is their fate, their foolish confidence. And yet, after them, people approve their words. Selah.

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  • Job 17:16
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    16Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?

  • Job 20:11
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    11The youthful vigor that filled his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 21:25
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    25While another dies in bitterness of soul, having never tasted prosperity.

  • Job 34:15
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    15all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    32He is carried to the graves, and a watch is kept over his tomb.

    33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless go before him.

  • Eccl 3:20
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    20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

  • Isa 14:10-11
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    10They all respond and say to you, 'You too have become weak as we are; you have become like us!'

    11Your pride has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Beneath you is a bed of maggots, and worms cover you.

  • Ps 49:14
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    14This is their fate, their foolish confidence. And yet, after them, people approve their words. Selah.

  • Job 21:13
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    13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • Job 25:6
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    6How much less a mortal, who is but a maggot, and a human, who is only a worm!

  • Job 4:19-21
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    19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

    20From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

    21Isn't their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, and not with wisdom.

  • Jer 16:4
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    4They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will lie like dung on the ground. They will perish by the sword and famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

  • Job 40:13
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    13Bury them together in the dust; bind their faces in the hidden place.

  • Job 27:19
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    19The rich man lies down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

  • Isa 66:24
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    24Then they will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who rebelled against Me; their worm will not die, their fire will not be quenched, and they will be abhorrent to all mankind.

  • Job 36:14
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    14Their soul dies in their youth, and their life ends among the unclean.

  • Job 24:19-20
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    19As drought and heat consume the snow waters, so Sheol consumes those who have sinned.

    20The womb forgets them; worms feast upon them; they are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.

  • Isa 14:18-19
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    18All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb,

    19but you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

  • Job 7:5
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    5My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

  • Isa 26:14
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    14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

  • Job 20:7
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    7he will perish forever like his own waste; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

  • Jer 9:22
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    22This is what the Lord says: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man boast in his strength, nor the rich man boast in his riches.

  • Isa 26:19
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    19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

  • Mic 7:17
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    17They will lick the dust like snakes, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds; they will dread the LORD our God and stand in awe of You.

  • Job 21:23
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    23One person dies in the full vigor of his strength, completely secure and at ease,

  • Ps 41:8
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    8All who hate me whisper together against me; they devise evil against me.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

  • Job 3:21-22
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    21To those who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures.

    22Who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave.

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    7As one plows the earth and breaks it apart, so are our bones scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

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    29for the kingdom belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.

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    11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

  • 1 Kgs 13:30
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    30He laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying, 'Alas, my brother!'

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    10Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

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    4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

  • Prov 1:12
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    12Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit;

  • Job 34:20
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    20In a moment, they die; at midnight, people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are removed without human intervention.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

    22Their soul draws near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.

  • Jer 8:2
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    2They will spread them out before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they loved, served, followed, sought, and worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried but will be like dung on the surface of the ground.

  • Jer 16:6
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    6Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned; no one will cut themselves or shave their heads for them in mourning.

  • Job 19:26
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    26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.