Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Holman Bible
and worms cover them.
International Standard Version
They both lie down in the dust; and worms cover them."
A Conservative Version
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
American Standard Version
They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
Amplified
“Together they lie down in the dust,
And the worms cover them.
Bible in Basic English
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
Julia Smith Translation
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.
King James 2000
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.
Modern King James verseion
They lie down together in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.
NET Bible
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
New Heart English Bible
They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
The Emphasized Bible
Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
25 And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good: 26 Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them. 27 Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Isaiah 14:11
thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, And worms cover thee.
Job 20:11
His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 3:18-19
The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 17:14
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
Job 19:26
And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
Job 24:20
The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --
Psalm 49:14
Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.