Bible Verses About Death

Y'honatan replied,"Heaven forbid! You're not going to die! Look, my father does nothing important or unimportant without telling me first; so why should my father hide this from me? It just won't happen!"

In response David swore, "Your father knows very well that you have made me your friend. This is why he will say, 'Y'honatan must not know this, or he will be unhappy.'As truly as ADONAI lives, and as truly as you are alive, there is only a step between me and death."

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before ADONAI when you heard what I said against this place and its inhabitants - that they would become an object of astonishment and cursing - and have torn your clothes and cried before me, I have also heard you, says ADONAI.

Therefore I will gather you to your ancestors, you will go to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the calamity I am going to bring on this place.'" So they brought word back to the king.

prisoners live at peace together without hearing a taskmaster's yells.

Great and small alike are there, and the slave is free of his master.

The eye that now sees me will see me no more; while your eyes are on me, I will be gone.

Like a cloud dissolving and disappearing, so he who descends to Sh'ol won't come back up.

He will not return again to his house, and his home will know him no more.

before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and death-dark gloom,

a land of gloom like darkness itself, of dense darkness and utter disorder, where even the light is dark.'"

"For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow.

Even if its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

But when a human being grows weak and dies, he expires; and then where is he?

Just as water in a lake disappears, as a river shrinks and dries up;

so a person lies down and doesn't arise until the sky no longer exists; it will not awaken, it won't be roused from its sleep.

the water wears away its stones, and the floods wash away its soil, so you destroy a person's hope.

You overpower him, and he passes on; you change his appearance and send him away.

His children earn honor, but he doesn't know it; or they are brought low, but he doesn't notice.

"If I hope for Sh'ol to be my house; if I spread my couch in the dark;

if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,'and to worms, 'You are my mother and sister,'

"Don't you know that ever since time began, ever since humans were placed on earth,

that the triumph of the wicked is always short-lived, and the joy of the ungodly is gone in a moment?

"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their calamity come upon them? How often does [God] deal out pain in his anger,