Job 27:19

World English Bible (2000)

He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 24:24 : 24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
  • Ps 73:19-20 : 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. 20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
  • 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. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
  • Job 8:22 : 22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
  • Job 14:12-15 : 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. 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come. 15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
  • Job 20:7-9 : 7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?' 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
  • Job 21:23-26 : 23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. 25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. 26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 15:28-29
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    28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

  • Job 27:20
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    20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

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

  • Ps 49:16-17
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    16Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.

    17For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

  • Job 20:7-11
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    76%

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

    8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

    10His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

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

  • Job 27:18
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    18He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Ps 49:19
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    19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

  • Eccl 5:12-14
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    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

    14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Job 30:24
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    24"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • Job 7:8-10
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    74%

    8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

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

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Job 21:32
    74%

    32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Job 21:13
    73%

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

  • Job 27:15-16
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    73%

    15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

    16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

  • Prov 28:11
    73%

    11The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

  • Luke 16:22
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    22It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Job 21:26
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    26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • Ps 52:7
    72%

    7"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • Job 20:21
    72%

    21There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • Job 36:19
    72%

    19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • Ps 37:36
    72%

    36But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Job 18:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Job 24:22
    71%

    22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

  • Eccl 6:5
    71%

    5Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

  • Jer 17:11
    71%

    11As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

  • Ps 49:10
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    10For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • Job 14:2
    71%

    2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Prov 27:24
    71%

    24for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

  • Prov 11:28
    70%

    28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

  • Job 21:23
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    23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

  • Job 3:21
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    21Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,