Job 21:26

Job chapter 21 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.25And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

v.26This passage

v.27Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:2

    All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

  • Isaiah 14:11

    Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

  • Job 24:20

    The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Psalms 49:14

    They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd: And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

  • Job 19:26

    And after my skin, eventhisbody, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

  • Job 17:14

    If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;