Job 21:26

World English Bible (2000)

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
  • Job 3:18-19 : 18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. 19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
  • Job 19:26 : 26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

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    16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

  • Job 20:11
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    11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 21:25
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    25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

  • Job 34:15
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    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Job 21:32-33
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    32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

    33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

  • Eccl 3:20
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    20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Job 14:12
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    12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Isa 14:10-11
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    10 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"

    11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

  • Ps 49:14
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    14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

  • Job 21:13
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    13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

  • Job 25:6
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    6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is 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 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

    21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

  • Jer 16:4
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    4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

  • Job 40:13
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    13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

  • Job 27:19
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    19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

  • Isa 66:24
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    24 "They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."

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    14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

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

    20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Isa 14:18-19
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    18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

    19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

  • Job 7:5
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    5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

  • Isa 26:14
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    14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

  • Job 20:7
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    7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

  • Jer 9:22
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    22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].

  • Isa 26:19
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    19 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.

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    17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

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    23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

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    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

    22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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    7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

  • Ps 22:29
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    29 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive.

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    11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

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    30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!"

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    10 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

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    4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

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    12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

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    20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

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    6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

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    26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,