Bible Verses About Death

And he sayde vnto him, God forbid, thou shalt not die: beholde, my father will do nothing great nor small, but he will shewe it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? he will not doe it.

And Dauid sware againe and sayd, Thy father knoweth that I haue found grace in thine eyes: therefore he thinketh, Ionathan shall not knowe it, lest he be sorie: but in deede, as the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, there is but a step betweene me and death.

But because thine heart did melt, and thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants of the same, to wit, that it should be destroyed and accursed, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I haue also heard it, saith the Lord.

Beholde therefore, I wil gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be put in thy graue in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the euil, which I will bring vpon this place. Thus they brought the King worde againe.

The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.

There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

The eye that hath seene me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I shall be no longer.

As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.

He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.

Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:

Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,

Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.

But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?

As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,

So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.

As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.

Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.

And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,

Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.

I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.

Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.