25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

"The spirits of the dead tremble below [the] waters and their inhabitants.

With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes.

Whatever your hand finds to do--do [it] with [all] your might; for in Sheol--where you are going--no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.

Even if a man fathers a hundred [children] and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with {his prosperity} and {he does not receive a proper burial}, I deem the stillborn better than him. For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness. He has neither seen nor known the sun, yet he has more rest than him.

for what {does he care for} his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

it will go to the generation of his fathers. Never will they see light.

For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?

Are your wonders known in the darkness, [or] your righteousness in [the] land of forgetfulness?

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

set free among the dead, like [the] slain lying in [the] grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.

Do you work wonders for the dead? Or do [the] departed spirits rise up [to] praise you? Selah Is your loyal love told in the grave, [or] your faithfulness in the underworld?

The dead do not praise Yah, nor any descending into silence.

For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

For a fire was kindled by my anger, and it burned {up to the depths of Sheol}, and it devoured [the] earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of [the] mountains.

Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like [those] descending to [the] pit.

For [the] enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like [those] long dead.

In darkness he has let me dwell like [the] dead of long ago.

{You are more lovely than whom}? Go down and be laid in rest with [the] uncircumcised.

And you [too] in the midst of uncircumcised [people] will be broken, and you will lie with [those] slain by [the] sword.

[The] chiefs of [the] warriors will speak to him from the middle of Sheol; with his helpers they have gone down; the uncircumcised lie [still], {those slain by the sword}.

In the midst of [the] slain they made a bed for her with all of her hordes all around its graves, all of them uncircumcised, slain by [the] sword, for their terror was spread in [the] land of [the] living, and they [now] bear their disgrace with [the people] going down to [the] grave; in the midst of [the] slain it was placed.

And they do not lie with warriors fallen from long ago, who went down [to] Sheol with their weapons of war, and they placed their sword under their heads, and their shields were on their bones, for [the] terror of [the] warriors [was] in [the] land of the living.

But you, go [on] to the end and rest, and you will arise for your allotted inheritance at the end of the days."