Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now sleep they both alike in the earth, 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.
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.
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 Another dieth in sorrow and heaviness, and never had good days. 26 Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them. 27 "But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.
Names
Cross References
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.
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.
Job 20:11
From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.
Job 3:18-19
There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor.
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.
Job 24:20
O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.
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.