New International Version
Job 21:26
26Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
Job 21:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They lie down alike in the dust, And worms cover them.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But both are buried in the same dust, both eaten by the same maggots.
Context of Job 21:26
24well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow. 25Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good. Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both. 27“I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me. 28You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’
Read all of Job 21Job 21:26 word by word
יַ֭חַד עַל־עָפָ֣ר יִשְׁכָּ֑בוּ וְ֝רִמָּ֗ה תְּכַסֶּ֥ה עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:26
- Job 3:18Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.
- Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.
- Job 17:14if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
- Job 19:26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
- Psalms 49:14They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.
- Isaiah 14:11All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
Commentaries on Job 21:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26They shall lie down alike in the dust - Death levels all distinctions, and the grave makes all equal. There may be a difference in the grave itself; but the human corpse is the same in all. Splendid monuments enshrine corruption; but the sod must lie close and heavy upon the putrefying carcass, to prevent it from becoming the bane of the living.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26They shall lie down alike in the dust - The emphasis here is on the word “alike” - יחד yachad The idea is, that they should die “in a similar manner.” There would be no such difference in the mode of their death as to determine anything about their character or to show that one was the friend of God, and that the other was not. The friends of Job had maintained, that that could be certainly known by the divine dealings with people, either in their life…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-26Verses 17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26worms cover them both: Compare 17:14; Isaiah 14:11; see Job 19:26.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. (Ec 9:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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