Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
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.
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 comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good. 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm. 27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
Names
Cross References
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.
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.
Job 20:11
His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
Job 3:18-19
There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
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;
Job 24:20
The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
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.