Bible Verses About Death

Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.

Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:

The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:

Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:

Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted:

His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,

Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.