Psalms 89:48

Authorized King James Version (1611)

What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:15 : 15 ¶ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
  • Heb 11:5 : 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 22:29 : 29 All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
  • Ps 49:7-9 : 7 None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
  • Eccl 3:19-20 : 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 [There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
  • John 8:51 : 51 ¶ ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.›
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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    46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

    47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

  • Job 14:12-14
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    12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

    13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • 15 ¶ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

  • Ps 49:8-9
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    8 (For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

    9 That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.

  • 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?

  • Ps 88:10-11
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    10 ¶ Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.

    11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?

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    5 For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

  • Isa 38:10-11
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    10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • 49 Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which] thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

    5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

  • 12 Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.

  • 6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  • 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3 LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

    4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 9 What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

  • Ps 49:17-19
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    17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

    18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

    19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9 [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].

    10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Eccl 8:7-8
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    7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

    8 [There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

  • 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

  • Job 30:23-24
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    71%

    23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.

    24 Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

  • 16 O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

  • 12 For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • 12 What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?

  • 21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

  • 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Ps 88:3-5
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    3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

    4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:

    5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

  • 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Job 7:16-17
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    16 I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

    17 ¶ What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

  • 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

  • 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.