Job 21:26

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Job 21:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible

24 His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.

25 Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 3:18

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Job 3:19

Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

Job 20:11

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

Job 17:14

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 19:26

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

Psalms 49:14

Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.