Job 24:19

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke.

The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

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.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

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

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

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

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?

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

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

Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

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

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.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

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

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

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.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

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

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

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

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

Now therefore Yahweh says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.” ’ ” Then Elijah departed.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

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

One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

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

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

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.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

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

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

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.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

“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.

Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray 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.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

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

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

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

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.