Job 27:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 24:24 : 24 They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
  • Ps 73:19-20 : 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! 20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
  • Job 8:22 : 22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
  • Job 14:12-15 : 12 so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep. 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes. 15 You will call and I– I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.
  • Job 20:7-9 : 7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’ 8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight. 9 People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
  • Job 21:23-26 : 23 Death Levels Everything“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous, 24 his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist. 25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good. 26 Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

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  • Job 27:20
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    20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

  • Ps 49:16-17
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    16Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich and his wealth multiplies!

    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

  • Job 20:7-11
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    7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

    10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

    11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 27:18
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    18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

    21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

  • Ps 49:19
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    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Eccl 5:12-14
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    12The sleep of the laborer is pleasant– whether he eats little or much– but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

    13Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

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    24The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

  • Job 7:8-10
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    8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

    11For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

  • Job 21:32
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    32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

  • Job 21:13
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    13They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

  • Job 27:15-16
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    15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

    16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

  • Prov 28:11
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    11A rich person is wise in his own opinion, but a discerning poor person can evaluate him properly.

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    22“Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

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    2God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor– instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

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    22The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

  • Job 21:26
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    26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

  • Ps 52:7
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    7“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”

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    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

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    19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

  • Ps 37:36
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    36But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

  • Job 18:17-18
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    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

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    22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

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    5though it never saw the light of day nor knew anything, yet it has more rest than that man–

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    11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”

  • Ps 49:10
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    10Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Prov 27:24
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    24for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.

  • Prov 11:28
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    28The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

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    23Death Levels Everything“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,

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    21to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,