Job 41:32

I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.

Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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

But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

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

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

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.

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

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

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.