When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
Job 14:10 - Revised Standard Version But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? 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 finished charging his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
“Why didst thou 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 deceives a man?
so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his 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 from my flesh I shall see God,
he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.”
The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.
All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?
Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.