Job 21:26
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
In Context
25But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
Cross References
Job 3:18And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
Job 17:14I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
Job 20:11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought 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 →