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 keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 21:23
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

Gathered

Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
Jeremiah 8:2
and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
Matthew 23:37
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

He openeth

Job 20:7
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
Psalm 58:9
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Psalm 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.