Job 21:23
23One dies in his full vigor,being wholly at ease and secure,
Job 21:32-34
32When he is acarried to the grave,watch is kept over his tomb.
33 bThe clods of the valley are sweet to him;
call mankind follows after him,
and those who go before him are innumerable.
34How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?
There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
Psalms 49:14
14Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;death shall be their shepherd,
and the upright dshall rule over them in the morning.
eTheir form shall be consumed fin Sheol, with no place to dwell.
Psalms 58:8-9
8Let them be like the snail gthat dissolves into slime,like hthe stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of ithorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he jsweep them away! ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
Psalms 68:2
2As lsmoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;mas wax melts before fire,
so the wicked shall perish before God!
Proverbs 14:32
32 nThe wicked is overthrown through his evildoing,but othe righteous finds refuge in his death.
Ecclesiastes 9:4-6
4But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5For the living know that they will die, but pthe dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for qthe memory of them is forgotten. 6Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.Luke 12:20
20But God said to him, r‘Fool! sThis night tyour soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, uwhose will they be?’
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