Job 21:26

Bishops' Bible (1568)

They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them.

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  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 It happeneth vnto one as vnto another, it goeth with the righteous as with the vngodly, with the good and cleane, as with the vncleane, with hym that offereth, as with him that offereth not: like as it goeth with the vertuous, so goeth it also with the sinner: as it happeneth vnto the pariured, so happeneth it also to hym that is afrayde to be forsworne.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Thy pompe and thy pride is layde downe into the pit, and so is the melodie of thy instrumentes. Wormes be layde vnder thee, & wormes be thy coueryng.
  • Job 20:11 : 11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth.
  • Job 3:18-19 : 18 There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour: 19 There are small and great, and the seruaunt is free from his maister.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And though after my skinne the wormes destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe:
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The pitifull man shall forget hym, he shalbe sweete to the wormes, he shalbe no more remembred, & his wickednesse shalbe broken as a tree.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They shalbe put into a graue dead as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell shall receaue them from their house.

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  • 16 These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust.

  • 11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth.

  • 25 Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

  • 15 All fleshe shall come to naught at once, and all men shall turne againe vnto dust.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    32 Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape of the dead.

    33 Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him.

  • 20 They go all vnto one place: for as they be all of dust, so shall they all turne vnto dust agayne.

  • 12 So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe.

  • Isa 14:10-11
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    10 That they may all aunswere and speake vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we? Art thou become lyke vnto vs?

    11 Thy pompe and thy pride is layde downe into the pit, and so is the melodie of thy instrumentes. Wormes be layde vnder thee, & wormes be thy coueryng.

  • 14 They shalbe put into a graue dead as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell shall receaue them from their house.

  • 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue.

  • 6 Howe much more then man that is but corruption, and the sonne of man which is but a worme?

  • Job 4:19-21
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    19 Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth?

    20 They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them.

    21 Is not their royaltie gone away with them? they shall dye truely, and not in wysdome.

  • 4 They shall dye an horrible death, no man shall weepe for them, nor bury them, but they shall lye as dunge vpon the earth: they shall perishe through the sworde & hunger, and their bodyes shalbe meate for the fowles of the ayre, and beastes of the earth.

  • 13 Hide them in the dust together, and couer their faces in secrete:

  • 19 When the riche man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers, they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

  • 24 And they shall go foorth and loke vpon the carions of them that haue transgressed agaynst me: for their wormes shall not dye, neither shall their fire be quenched, and all fleshe shall abhorre them.

  • 14 Thus shal their soule perishe in foolishnes, and their lyfe among the fornicatours.

  • Job 24:19-20
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    19 As the drye grounde and heate consume the snowye waters: so shall the graue the sinners.

    20 The pitifull man shall forget hym, he shalbe sweete to the wormes, he shalbe no more remembred, & his wickednesse shalbe broken as a tree.

  • Isa 14:18-19
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    18 The kynges of the nations lye euery one in his owne house with worship.

    19 And thou art cast out of thy graue like a fylthy abhominable braunche, like as dead mens rayment that are shot thorowe with the sworde, and go downe to the stones of the deepe, as a dead coarse that is troden vnder feete.

  • 5 My fleshe is clothed with wormes and dust of the earth: my skinne is withered and become horrible.

  • 29 When thou hydest thy face, they are troubled: when thou takest away their spirite, they dye, and are turned agayne to their dust.

  • 14 The dead wyll not liue, they that be out of life will not ryse agayne, therfore hast thou visited and rooted them out, and destroyed all the memorie of them.

  • 7 Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?

  • 22 But tell thou playnely, thus saith the Lord: The dead bodyes of men shall lye vpon the ground as the dunge vpon the fielde, and as the handfull after the mower, and there shalbe no man to take them vp.

  • 19 Thy dead men shall liue, euen as my body shall they rise againe: Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust, for thy deawe is euen as the deawe of hearbes, and the earth shall cast out them that be vnder her.

  • 17 They shal licke the dust like a serpente, and as the wormes of the earth that tremble in their holes: they shalbe afrayde of the Lorde our God, and they shall feare thee.

  • 23 One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie,

  • 8 They sayde some great mischiefe is lyghted vpon hym: and he that lyeth sicke on his bed, shall ryse vp no more.

  • 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:

    22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue,

  • 7 Our bones lye scattered vpon the graues mouth: lyke as when one breaketh and heweth wood vpon the earth.

  • 29 All such as be fat vpon the earth shall eate and worshyp: all they that go downe in to the dust shall knele before hym, although he preserued not his owne lyfe.

  • 11 Yea, that thou mourne not at the last, when thou hast spent thy bodye and lustie youth, and then say:

  • 30 And he layde his body in his owne graue, and then lamented ouer him saying Alas my brother.

  • 10 Whiche perished at Ein Dor: and became as the doung of the earth.

  • 4 Blessed is he vnto whom the God of Iacob is an ayde: his trust is in God his Lorde.

  • 12 Let vs swallowe them vp lyke the graue quicke and whole, as those that go downe into the pit:

  • 20 In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21 In so much that his body is cleane consumed away, and his bones appeare which before were not seene.

    22 His soule draweth vnto the graue, and his lyfe to death.

  • 2 And layde against the sunne, the moone, & all the heauenly hoast, whom they loued, whom they serued, whom they ranne after, whom they sought and worshipped: they shall neither be gathered together nor buried, but shall lye as dunge vpon the earth.

  • 6 And in this lande shall they dye olde and young, and shall not be buryed: no man shall beweepe them, no man shall clippe or shaue hym selfe for them.

  • 26 And though after my skinne the wormes destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe: