Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers 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."
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.
Darby Translation
Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
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 man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. 26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them. 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man,
Isaiah 14:11
Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
Job 20:11
His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 3:18-19
There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 17:14
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Job 19:26
And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Psalm 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it.