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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 12 so 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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    10 They all respond and say to you, 'You too have become weak as we are; you have become like us!'

    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.

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

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

  • 6 How 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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    19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

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

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

  • 4 They 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.

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

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

  • 24 Then 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.

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

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

    20 The 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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    18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb,

    19 but 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 22 This 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.

  • 19 Your 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.

  • 17 They 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 20 In 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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    21 Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

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

  • 2 They 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.

  • 6 Both 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.

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