Job 21:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ They shall lie down alike in the dust, And the worms shall cover them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm spreads a covering over them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

Common English Bible

²⁶ They lie together in the dust and worms cover them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And yet they will sleep together in the dust, and worms will cover them.

Job 21:26 Cross References

Job 17:14

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

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,

Job 20:11

His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 21:25

Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.

Job 21:27

“Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

Job 24:20

The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

Job 3:13

For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.