Job 17:14

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

“ ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,