Job 21:26
Nevertheless they shall sleep together in (the) dust, and worms shall cover them.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
In Context
25And another man dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and without any riches.
27Certainly I know your wicked thoughts, and your sentences against me.
Cross References
Job 3:18And sometime men bound together (now be) without dis-ease, they heard not the voice of the wrongful asker. (And (those who) before were bound together, now be without unease, (or distress); they hear no more their taskmaster’s voice.)
Job 17:14I said to rot (or And I shall say to rot), Thou art my father; and to worms, Ye be my mother, and my sister.
Job 20:11His bones shall be [full-]filled with the vices of his young waxing age; and they shall sleep with him in (the) dust.
Psalms 49:14As sheep they be put in hell; death shall gnaw them. And just men shall be lords of them in the morrowtide; and the help of them shall wax eld in hell, for the glory of them or from the glory of them. (Like sheep they go down to Sheol, or the land of the dead; and death shall gnaw on them. The righteous shall be their lords; and their bodies shall grow old, or rotten, in Sheol, so different from their days of glory.)
Ecclesiastes 9:3This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all men; wherefore and the hearts of the sons of men be filled with malice and with despising in their life; and after these things, they shall be led down into hells. (This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all people; yea, the hearts of the sons and daughters of men be filled with malice and despising during their lives; and then after these things, they go down to Sheol, or the land of the dead, or they go 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 →