Bible Verses About Death

to make them like straw in the wind, like chaff carried off by a storm?

One person dies in his full strength, completely at ease and content;

his pails are full of milk, and the marrow in his bones is moist.

Another dies with embittered heart, never having tasted happiness.

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them both.

For he is carried off to the grave, people keep watch over his tomb,

the clods of the valley are sweet to him; so everyone follows his example, just as before him were countless others.

He may lie down rich, but his wealth yields nothing; when he opens his eyes, it isn't there.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; at night a whirlwind steals him away.

The east wind carries him off, and he's gone; it sweeps him far from his place.

Yes, it hurls itself at him, sparing nothing; he does all he can to flee from its power.

[People] clap their hands at him in derision and hiss him out of his home.

If he were to take back man's heart to himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and breath;

all flesh would instantly perish, everyone would return to dust.

For beware of wrath when abundance entices you; don't let a big bribe turn you aside.

Will your great wealth help you? or all your efforts, no matter how strong?

By David: Don't be upset by evildoers or envious of those who do wrong,

for soon they will wither like grass and fade like the green in the fields.

For evildoers will be cut off, but those hoping in ADONAI will inherit the land.

Soon the wicked will be no more; you will look for his place, and he won't be there.

I have seen a wicked man wielding great power, flourishing like a shade tree in its native soil.

But I passed by again, and he was no longer there; I looked for him, but he could not be found.

to have him live on eternally and never see the pit.

For he can see that wise men will die, likewise the fool and the brute will perish and leave their wealth to others.

but he will join his ancestors' generations and never again see light.