Cross references

Job 21:26

But together they lie down in the dust,

and worms cover them both.

Job 21:26 BSB

Job 21:26 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 9:2 (6 votes) and Isaiah 14:11 (6 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Genesis 3 to James 1.

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Which verses does Job 21:26 point to?

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  1. It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

  2. Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

  3. Job 20:115 votes

    The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  4. The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

  5. Job 17:142 votes

    and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

  6. Job 19:262 votes

    Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

  7. Job 24:202 votes

    The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

  8. Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

Which verses point to Job 21:26?

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