Parallel Verses
King James 2000
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall 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.
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.
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 dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure. 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.
Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of your harps: the maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
Job 20:11
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 3:18-19
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
Job 19:26
And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Psalm 49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.