Bible Verses About Death

Who knows if the spirit of a human being goes upward and the spirit of an animal goes downward into the earth?"

A good name is better than perfumed oil, and the day of death better than the day of birth.

Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for all are destined to be mourned; the living should lay this to heart.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost.

What they loved, what they hated and what they envied all disappeared long ago, and they no longer have a share in anything done under the sun.

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For if a person lives many years, let him take joy in them all; yet remembering that there will be many days of darkness, that all to come is futile.

"I once said: 'In the prime of life I am going off to the gates of Sh'ol. I am being deprived of living out the full span of my life.'

"I said, 'I will never again see Yah, Yah in the land of the living; I will look on human beings no more or be with those who live in this world.

My home is uprooted and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. Like a weaver, I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom. Between day and night you could finish me off.

I try to be strong like a lion till morning, but still my illness breaks all my bones - between day and night you could finish me off.

"Sh'ol cannot thank you, death cannot praise you; those descending to the pit cannot hope for your truth.

The living, the living - they can thank you, as I do today; fathers will make their children know about your faithfulness.

The righteous person perishes, and nobody gives it a thought. Godly men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from the evil yet to come.

Yes, those who live uprightly will have peace as they rest on their couches.

For this is what ADONAI says concerning the sons and daughters born here, as well as their mothers who gave birth to them and their fathers who conceived them in this land:

'They will die terrible deaths without being mourned or buried; they will be left on the ground like dung. They will die by the sword and by famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds in the air and the wild animals.'

“Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit,

like people waiting for their master’s return after a wedding feast; so that when he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him without delay.

Happy the slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes! Yes! I tell you he will put on his work clothes, seat them at the table, and come serve them himself!

In time the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Avraham’s side; the rich man also died and was buried.

“In Sh’ol, where he was in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Avraham far away with El‘azar at his side.

He called out, ‘Father Avraham, take pity on me, and send El‘azar just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, because I’m in agony in this fire!’

However, Avraham said, ‘Son, remember that when you were alive, you got the good things while he got the bad; but now he gets his consolation here, while you are the one in agony.

Yet that isn’t all: between you and us a deep rift has been established, so that those who would like to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’