Job 9:22

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.”

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

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

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

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:

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

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

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.

Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh. ‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?” or “Who would enter into our homes?”

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

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

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

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

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished.

“Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

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.

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

“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.

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

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

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

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.”

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.

“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

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

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

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

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

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.

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

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

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

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.

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.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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.

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

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

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.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

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

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’

For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

therefore the Lord Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

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