Job 21:26

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

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

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

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.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

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.”

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.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“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.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

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

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

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

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

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

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

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

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

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

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

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.’

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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.

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 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.”

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

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.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

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

I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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.

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.

until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

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.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

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

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

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.”

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

if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

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

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

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.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.