Job 21:26
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New International Version (©2011)
Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But both are buried in the same dust, both eaten by the same maggots.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Together they lie down in the dust, And worms cover them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They both lie down in the dust; and worms cover them."

NET Bible (©2006)
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

American King James Version
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

American Standard Version
They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

Darby Bible Translation
Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.

English Revised Version
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

World English Bible
They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

Young's Literal Translation
Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:17-26 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 one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 26. - They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. However different the circumstances of their life, men are alike in their death. One event happens to all. All die, are laid in the dust, and become the prey of worms.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They shall lie down alike in the dust,.... Such as have lived and died in great outward prosperity, or in more unhappy circumstances; these are levelled by death, and brought into the same state and condition; are laid on dusty beds, where there is no difference between them, their rest together is in the dust; here they dwell, and here they lie and sleep until they are awaked in the morning of the resurrection:

and the worms shall cover them; these are the companions alike unto them, and sweetly feed on the one as on the other; the earth is their bed, and worms are their covering; even such who used to lie on beds of down, and were covered with coverings of silk, have now the same bed and covering as those who used to lie on beds of straw, and scarce any thing to cover them; worms are spread under them, and are spread upon them; they are both their bed and their covering, Isaiah 14:11.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26. (Ec 9:2).

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Job: God will Deal with the Wicked
…25And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure. 26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. 27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me. …

Job 3:13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Job 17:14 if I say to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother' or 'My sister,'
Job 20:11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.
Job 21:25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
Job 21:27 "I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Job 24:20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
Ecclesiastes 9:2 All 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.
Isaiah 14:11 All 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.