Job 21:26
[And yet] together they must lie down in the dust, and the worms will cover them?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
In Context
25While this other dieth with an embittered soul, and hath never partaken of any happiness;
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me.
Cross References
Job 3:18[Where] the prisoners repose together, [and] they hear no more the taskmaster's voice.
Job 17:14When I call to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister, to the worms.
Job 20:11[Now] his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will [suddenly] lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 49:14(49:15) Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, [taken away] from their own dwelling.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.
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 →