Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The worms
Bible References
Alike
Job 3:18
[the] prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear [the] oppressor's voice.
Job 20:11
His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on [the] dust.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
The same fate [comes] to everyone: to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the wicked, to the clean and to the unclean, to those who sacrifice and to those who do not sacrifice. As [with] the good [man], so also to the sinner; [as with] those who swear an oath, so [also] those who fear oaths.
The worms
Job 17:14
[if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'
Job 19:26
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,
Psalm 49:14
Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms [will be for] Sheol to consume, [far from] his lofty abode.
Isaiah 14:11
Your pride is brought down [to] Sheol, [and] the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.