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
There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
Job 20:11
His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
The worms
Job 17:14
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Job 19:26
And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Psalm 49:14
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Isaiah 14:11
Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.