Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The worms
Bible References
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Job 3:18
There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor.
Job 20:11
From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
It happeneth unto one as unto another; It goeth with the righteous as with the ungodly; with the good and clean as with the unclean; with him that offereth as with him that offereth not; like as it goeth with the virtuous, so goeth it also with the sinner; As it happeneth unto the perjured, so happeneth it also unto him that is afraid to be foresworn.
The worms
Job 17:14
I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.
Job 19:26
that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh.
Psalm 49:14
They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.
Isaiah 14:11
Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering.