25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?

The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

But thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain by the sword.

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest, and shalt stand in thy lot, at the end of the days.