Bible Verses About Death

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

And their might is firm.

Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.

As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.

To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?

Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee.

Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.

For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we are dust.

Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

The wise! --his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:

That there is no remembrance to the wise--with the fool--to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.

The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.