Job 21:23

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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.”

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.