When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
Job 14:10 - New Revised Standard Version But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But man dieth, and wasteth away: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie prostrate; yes, man breathes his last, and where is he? American Standard Version (1901) But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? Common English Bible But a human dies and lies there; a person expires, and where is he? Catholic Public Domain Version Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? |
When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
“Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one person deceives another?
so mortals lie down and do not rise again; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake or be roused out of their sleep.
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,
they will perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.
All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?
Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in they found her dead, so they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.