Job 7:9

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.”

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

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

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

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.

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.

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

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

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.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

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.

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

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

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

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

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

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

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

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

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.

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

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

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.

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.

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

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

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

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

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

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

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.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

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.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

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

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.