Job 21:26
New International Version
Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.

New Living Translation
But both are buried in the same dust, both eaten by the same maggots.

English Standard Version
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

Berean Standard Bible
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

King James Bible
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

New King James Version
They lie down alike in the dust, And worms cover them.

New American Standard Bible
“Together they lie down in the dust, And maggots cover them.

NASB 1995
“Together they lie down in the dust, And worms cover them.

NASB 1977
“Together they lie down in the dust, And worms cover them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Together they lie down in the dust, And worms cover them.

Amplified Bible
“Together they lie down in the dust, And the worms cover them.

Christian Standard Bible
But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them.

American Standard Version
They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They lie down together on the Earth, and worms will cover them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.

Contemporary English Version
But we all end up dead, beneath a blanket of worms.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

English Revised Version
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them.

Good News Translation
But all alike die and are buried; they all are covered with worms.

International Standard Version
They both lie down in the dust; and worms cover them."

JPS Tanakh 1917
They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

Literal Standard Version
Together they lie down on the dust, | And the worm covers them over.

Majority Standard Bible
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

New American Bible
Alike they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

NET Bible
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

New Revised Standard Version
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

New Heart English Bible
They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

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Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
25Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity. 26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both. 27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.…

Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Job 17:14
and say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'

Job 20:11
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 21:25
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 24:20
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.


Treasury of Scripture

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

alike

Job 3:18,19
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor…

Job 20:11
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

the worms

Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Job 19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

Psalm 49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

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Job 21
1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved
7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God
16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest
21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death
27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world














(26) They shall lie down alike in the dust.--Not only, therefore, is the inequality of their life a stumbling-block, but so also is the equality which obliterates all distinction between them in death.

Verse 26. - They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. However different the circumstances of their life, men are alike in their death. One event happens to all. All die, are laid in the dust, and become the prey of worms.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But together
יַ֭חַד (ya·ḥaḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3162: A unit, unitedly

they lie down
יִשְׁכָּ֑בוּ (yiš·kā·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7901: To lie down

in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the dust,
עָפָ֣ר (‘ā·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

and worms
וְ֝רִמָּ֗ה (wə·rim·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7415: A maggot

cover
תְּכַסֶּ֥ה (tə·ḵas·seh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

them [both].
עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ (‘ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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