Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Bible References

Shall lie

Job 14:13
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 21:23
One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,
Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.

Gathered

Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Jeremiah 8:2
And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

He openeth

Job 20:7
he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
Psalm 58:9
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
Psalm 73:19
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

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