Job 21:26
And yet they will sleep together in the dust, and worms will cover them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
In Context
25In truth, another dies in bitterness of soul, without any resources.
27Surely, I know your thoughts and your sinful judgments against me.
Cross References
Job 3:18And at such times, having been bound together without difficulty, they have not heard the voice of the bailiff.
Job 17:14I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”
Job 20:11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27
Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →